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Unusual presentation of more common disease/injury
Duplication of appendix: an accidental finding
  1. Manoranjan Varshney,
  2. Mohammad Shahid,
  3. Veena Maheshwari,
  4. Aysha Mubeen,
  5. Kavita Gaur
  1. Department of Pathology, J.N. Medical College, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India
  1. Correspondence to Dr Kavita Gaur, kavgaur{at}gmail.com

Summary

Duplication of appendix is extremely rare anomaly. The reported incidence is 0.004–0.009%. In most of the cases the finding is accidental. Here the authors are presenting a case of type A duplex appendix in a 25-year male patient.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr.01.2011.3679

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