PSEUDOTUMOR OF CECUM
- 1 January 1955
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in A.M.A. Archives of Surgery
- Vol. 70 (1) , 136-139
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.1955.01270070138024
Abstract
THE CLINICAL and roentgenological significance of deformities of the cecum due to various operative procedures has not been given much consideration as evidenced by the few reports found in the literature. This report is concerned with the deformity produced by the inverted appendiceal stump and the problem of differential diagnosis of polypoid filling defects of the cecum. The inverted stump of the vermiform appendix may persist for some time as a bulbous mass protruding into the cecal lumen and may appear in the roentgenologic examination as a small, rounded, or ovoid intraluminal filling defect at the usual site of the base of the appendix.* Artner,1in 1929, and Malbin,6in 1947, performing postmortem appendectomies on autopsy specimens, were able to reveal polypoid lesions in the cecum by means of barium x-ray studies and showed these x-ray findings to be due to the inverted stumps of the appendices. ArtnerKeywords
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