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Acute appendicitis is rarely the initial presentation of cecal cancer in the elderly patient
1Department of Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York.
Journal of Surgical Oncology
|September 1, 1993
Abstract:
Acute appendicitis is rarely the initial presentation of carcinoma of the cecum in elderly patients. A 20-year retrospective review of all patients 65 years of age or older presenting with proven acute appendicitis at the Montefiore Medical Center confirms this opinion. In only 1.8% of patients was acute appendicitis the initial presentation of an underlying carcinoma of the cecum.