[Foreign body decubitus: unusual cause of acute appendicitis]

The authors describe the origin and the physiopathological events in acute appendicitis. They show an uncommon case of acute appendicitis. The aetiology was an opaque radiation foreign body causing a subacute abdominal disease. At operation the authors discovered the above body free in the abdominal cavity; the appendix was not in ischemic phase but completely cut off bycecal plant. They suppose aetiology to be of a decubitus origin.