The appendix, although considered a vestigial organ, is of considerable clinical importance because acute appendicitis is a common medical problem. There are also other disease processes involving the ...

Lesions of the appendix are being over diagnosed as invasive cancer, report University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers in a paper published June 7 in the journal PLOS ONE. The ...

Lesions of the appendix are being over diagnosed as invasive cancer, report University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers in a paper published June 7 in the journal PLOS ONE. The ...

1 Surgical Oncology Department, National Cancer Institute, Mexico, USA. 2 Pathology Department, Beebe Healthcare, Delaware, USA. 3 Surgical Oncology Department, Beebe Healthcare, Delaware, USA.

Lesions of the appendix are being over diagnosed as invasive cancer, report researchers. Lesions of the appendix are being over diagnosed as invasive cancer, report University of California San Diego ...

BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER. WELL, 20 YEARS AGO, APPENDIX CANCER WAS VIRTUALLY UNHEARD OF. BUT THIS WAS BECAUSE MANY OF THESE CANCERS WERE ACTUALLY MISDIAGNOSED. THE GENERAL SURGEONS IN THE PAST WERE ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Pathologists are often over-diagnosing cases of low-grade appendiceal mucinous neoplasm as invasive appendiceal ...

The appendix is a small, tube-shaped organ that connects to the cecum, the beginning of the large intestine. Though its role is unknown, it can become infected, resulting in acute appendicitis, which, ...

1 Department of Pathology, Joseph Ravoahangy Andrianavalona University Hospital, Antananarivo, Madagascar. 2 Chairman at the Department of Pathology, Medical School of Antananarivo, Antananarivo, ...