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Congenital absence of appendix: A Surgeon's dilemma during surgery for acute appendicitis
Congenital absence of the vermiform appendix is very rare in human beings with a reported incidence of 1 in 100,000 cases. Here, we report an incidence of a surgeon's dilemma to detect such a rare finding during surgery for a diagnosed case of acute appendicitis.
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4980886/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27695217 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9261.186555 |
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| author | Tripathy, Bikasha Bihary |
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| description | Congenital absence of the vermiform appendix is very rare in human beings with a reported incidence of 1 in 100,000 cases. Here, we report an incidence of a surgeon's dilemma to detect such a rare finding during surgery for a diagnosed case of acute appendicitis. |
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| spelling | pubmed-49808862016-10-01 Congenital absence of appendix: A Surgeon's dilemma during surgery for acute appendicitis Tripathy, Bikasha Bihary J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg Case Report Congenital absence of the vermiform appendix is very rare in human beings with a reported incidence of 1 in 100,000 cases. Here, we report an incidence of a surgeon's dilemma to detect such a rare finding during surgery for a diagnosed case of acute appendicitis. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4980886/ /pubmed/27695217 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9261.186555 Text en Copyright: © 2016 Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
| spellingShingle | Case Report Tripathy, Bikasha Bihary Congenital absence of appendix: A Surgeon's dilemma during surgery for acute appendicitis |
| title | Congenital absence of appendix: A Surgeon's dilemma during surgery for acute appendicitis |
| title_full | Congenital absence of appendix: A Surgeon's dilemma during surgery for acute appendicitis |
| title_fullStr | Congenital absence of appendix: A Surgeon's dilemma during surgery for acute appendicitis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Congenital absence of appendix: A Surgeon's dilemma during surgery for acute appendicitis |
| title_short | Congenital absence of appendix: A Surgeon's dilemma during surgery for acute appendicitis |
| title_sort | congenital absence of appendix: a surgeon's dilemma during surgery for acute appendicitis |
| topic | Case Report |
| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4980886/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27695217 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9261.186555 |
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