Pathological findings in patients with acute appendicitis treated at the Cuban hospital in Qatar
Keywords:
APPENDICITIS, TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED, BIOPSY, APPENDIX, HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUESAbstract
Background: the histological study of the appendix is the gold standard for diagnosing pathologies that simulate acute appendicitis.
Objective: to characterize the pathologies associated or that simulate acute appendicitis, in a sample of patients treated at the Cuban hospital in Qatar, from January 2018 to December 2019.
Methods: a descriptive, observational, cross-sectional and retrospective study was carried out with patients admitted to the emergency room of the aforementioned hospital, diagnosed with acute appendicitis, who underwent computed tomography (CT) of the abdomen, appendectomy and biopsy of the appendix, in the period of time declared in the objective.
Results: in general, young patients were the most affected ones (the 21 to 30 age group with 40,54 % and the 31 to 40 age group with 35,13 %); the average age was 32,05 years with a standard deviation of 9,37. The main diagnosis was lymphoid hyperplasia; the largest group was that of Qatari nationality, followed by the Bangladeshi. Men were mostly affected by benign diseases and women by malignant tumors. There was some statistical significance among the tomographic variable of wall thickness, sex of the patient and histological findings.
Conclusions: the diagnosis of tumors and premalignant diseases was not so low, based on this, it is advisable not to delay or abolish the histological assessment of the appendix.
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