Acute Eosinophilic Appendicitis: Case report of three cases with brief review of literature
Keywords:
Eosinophils, Appendix, Eosinophilic Appendicitis,
Abstract
Acute eosinophilic appendicitis (AEA) is a rare variant of appendix inflammation. The histologic hallmark of this entity is eosinophilic infiltration of the musularis layer with accompanying oedema separating the muscle fibres with out neutrophilic infiltration.To the best of our knowledge there are very few cases of eosinophilic appendicitis (EA) in the absence of any other abnormality reported in the literature. Hence, we made an attempt to study the cases of AEA and to draw the relevant conclusion about the disease pathogenesis. Out of total 159 appendectomy cases, three cases were found to have eosinophilic appendicitis (EA) and these cases were studied for clinical and pathological findings. Incidence of 0.02% (3/15) with male preponderance was found. We herein, present the cases of AEA which is rare variant and less understood entity.References
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2. Norman J, Leslie H. Appendix. In: Weidner N, Cote R, Suster S, Weiss LM . Modern surgical pathology. 2nd ed. Saunders Elsevier. 2009 vol.1. pp. 837-852.
3. Carr NJ. (2000) The pathology of acute appendicitis. Ann Diag Pathol 4: 46-58.
4. Gaurav Jain & Sujata R Kanetkar. Eosinophilic appendicitis: Case report of five cases & review of literature. Journal of medical research and practice 2013; 2(8):208-211.
5. Tally NJ, Shroter RG, Philips SF, Zinsmeister AR. Eosinophilic gastroenteritis: a clinicopathological study of patients with disease of the mucosa, muscle layer and the subserosal tissue. Gut.1990:31:54-58.
6. Aravindan KP. Eosinophils in acute appendicitis: Possible significance. IJPM.1997; 40(4): 491-498.
7. Rafiq A. Sheik, Thomas Prindiville, Shagufta Yasmeen, Boris H. Ruebner. Eosinophilic Gastroenteritis. JK- Practitioner 2003; 10(1):1-3.
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2015-06-05
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