Adenocarcinoma of the cecal appendix. Presentation of 2 cases and a review of the literature
Tedesco, A.; Sestili, F.; Frattini, P.; Tegani, G.P.; Residori, C.
Minerva Chirurgica 44(13-14): 1757-1760
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0026-4733 PMID: 2682367 Document Number: 326817
Two cases of adenocarcinoma of the vermiform appendix are described. The literature on these rare cancers which are almost always diagnosed at routine histology and whose prognosis is related to Duke grading and staging, is reviewed. The stable cure observed in one patient after 13 years after straightforward caecal resection for cancer of the appendix extending beyond the base of the implant (which today would be handled with hemicolectomy) and then treated for multiple polyps, two of them in a stage of malignant degeneration, suggests a difference of biological behaviour compared to tumours of the other colon districts. In the second case, stress is laid on the unusual extension of the tumour-related inflammation to the skin of the gluteal region.