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When evaluating 4232 appendectomies between 1977-1986 there were 12.5% perforations and in 19.3% the diagnosis was not justified. In 5.1% surgical intervention was done without acute appendicitis. The overall lethality was 0.5%, the cases of perforation 2.3%. The diagnosis of lethality was cardiopulmonary disease. In this follow up study we discuss possibilities of giving a secure diagnosis.
A combination of radiotherapy and chemotherapy was applied to 13 patients for non-operable oesophageal carcinoma. Included in the twelve-week treatment were radiation doses between 43 and 60 Gy and five FU infusions. Only six patients responded at all to the therapy. Eleven patients died of progressing tumour growth, within two to nine months from diagnosis. One committed suicide with evidence of progressing deterioration. Only one has so far survided without recurrence for 36 months. The study was discontinued for the poor results recorded from those 13 patients. Different cytostatic combinations may, perhaps, yield better results.
Appendectomy was performed on 34 pregnant women between 1977 and 1984. These accounted for 1.1 per cent of appendectomies and 1.8% of all deliveries in the above period under review. The incidence of appendicitis during pregnancy did not appear to be very much below that outside gravidity. The foetus is endangered by hypoxaemico-toxic conditions in all phases but primarily during the last three months. Caesarean section should be precedent to appendectomy, at least in cases of advanced appendicitis and when the foetus is viable. With non-viable foetus, appendectomy should be performed alone.
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