Keywords:
Calcifications / Calculi, Abscess, Surgery, Drainage, CT, Interventional non-vascular, Abdomen
Authors:
C. Barry, C. Redmond, J. geraghty, D. P. Brophy; Dublin/IE
DOI:
10.1594/ecr2018/C-0816
Aims and objectives
Appendicitis is one of the most common causes of the acute abdomen and one of the most frequent indications for emergency abdominal surgery.
It is most common in the 2nd and 3rd decades of life.
The incidence of acute appendicitis is 233/100000 population and highest between the ages ten and nineteen.
The lifetime risk for men and women acquiring acute appendicitis is 8.6% and 6.7% respectively (1). The rate of laparoscopic appendicectomy has increased from 2.5% in 2003 to 78% in 2010 (2), however this figure varies from centre to centre and is surgeon dependant.
Appendicectomies can be complicated by retained appendicoliths.
However the literature is lacking in this area and is confined to case reports.
To the best of our knowledge there has been no study describing retained appendicoliths and their complications. Herein,
we report our experience of retained appendicolths over a consecutive 7 year period.