2508: "Circumappendiceal Somectomy"

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2508: "Circumappendiceal Somectomy"

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Title text: Some personal news: After treating my first case a few years ago with antibiotics, I can report that I have now had appendicitis for the second and--unless something extremely unexpected happened with the surgery--final time.


The only guaranteed way to be safe from appendicitis is to be vaccinated for it.
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Re: 2508: "Circumappendiceal Somectomy"

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...If you remove every part of the body from the appendix, is it still the same appendix...?
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Apparently it's actually possible to get "stump appendicitis" in the bit of the appendix that's left over.
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ratammer wrote: Mon Aug 30, 2021 8:10 amthe bit of the appendix that's left over.
...the appendix to the appendix?
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Appendix footnote
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Appendix²
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Re: 2508: "Circumappendiceal Somectomy"

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commodorejohn wrote: Mon Aug 30, 2021 2:17 pm...the appendix to the appendix?
More like a sequel.

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