PRIMARY CARCINOMA OF APPENDIX WITH GELATINOUS SPREAD

17 June 1933

journal article
research article
Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA

Vol. 100 (24) , 1930-1931
https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1933.02740240026009

Abstract

This case of mucous cancer of the appendix, with gelatinous spreading peritonitis, is of primary interest, since a search of the literature revealed very few cases with similar pathologic changes. Schena¹reported the case of a man, aged 52, operated on in December, 1928, because of symptoms and signs pointing to involvement of the appendix. Operation revealed a mucous carcinoma of the appendix with gelatinous peritonitis. Appendectomy was performed. Two and a half years later the patient was again operated on for ulcerative carcinoma of the rectum. At this time only slight evidence of the former lesion remained in the pelvis. Primary carcinoma of the appendix is by no means rare, the average occurrence being 0.39 per cent of all appendixes removed.²Up to 1906, only 42 cases had been reported, while by 1929 the number had been raised to 334.³ In spite of this number, "at

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