Histopathological findings in appendectomy specimens: a retrospective clinicopathological analysis.

The prevalence and clinical features of the various obstructive lesions in appendectomy specimens studied pathologically with special emphasis on unusualetiological findings were evaluated. The clinic-pathological data of 251 patients who underwent appendectomies for presumed acute appendicitis from January; 2008 to December; 2010; were reviewed retrospectively. Among all appendectomies performed, eleven (4.

Effect of pancreatic biliary reflux as a cofactor in cholecystitis.

This study assessed the effect of pancreatico-biliary reflux (PBR) as co-factor in the process of chronic cholecystitis by measurement of the levels of active pancreatic enzyme amylase in gallbladder bile and serum of patients undergoing cholecystectomy. Pancreatic Amylase levels in bile from the gallbladder and serum were measured during surgery in 68 patients with chronic calcular cholecystitis subjected to elective open or laparoscopic cholecystectomy in the National Hepatology and Tropical Medicine Research Institution and Theodore Bilharz Research Institute. Bile amylase was detected in 64 patients (94.