Volume : VII, Issue : IV, April - 2017

ACUTE APPENDICITIS SECONDARY TO GIANT FECOLITH: A CASE REPORT WITH REVIEW OF LITERATURE.

Dr. Sreejayan. M. P, Dr. Siddhart Matad

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 Acute appendicitis remains the most common cause of acute abdomen requiring surgical procedure in the young .final diagnosis is based  on hisptopathological examination. In the pathogenesis of development of  acute appendicitis obstruction of the lumen is the key step, which can be caused by appendicolith or fecolith,fiosis and stricture. We present a case in which there was a huge fecolith mimicking tumour at the base of the appendix.

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Dr.Sreejayan.M.P, Dr.Siddhart Matad, ACUTE APPENDICITIS SECONDARY TO GIANT FECOLITH: A CASE REPORT WITH REVIEW OF LITERATURE., INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume‾7 | Issue‾4 | April-2017

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