PubMed · 3856950
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T E Fullerton, G A Drabek, B T Lenz, H P Adams, D J Cavanaugh. 1985. Appendiceal intussusception.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3856950/
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The creation of a safe, reliable, and easy-to-perform continence mechanism remains one of the most important problems during continent urinary diversion. The advent of the use of the appendix as an efferent segment brought through the umbilicus has greatly facilitated surgical procedures with very favorable results. Our experience with the insitu appendix as an efferent segment during continent cutaneous urinary diversion using the Mainz-pouch I technique over the past 6 years revealed a markedly decreased complication rate of 3.2% as compared with 7.2% in patients who received an ileocecal intussusception nipple. The routine use of the appendix as a continence mechanism during continent urinary diversion has proved to be a most valuable addition to our surgical armentarium.
We report herein the unusual case of a 55-year-old man who presented with primary Crohn's disease of the appendix with fistulae. In this patient there was no history of previous appendectomy. Although fistula formation around the orifice of the appendix after appendectomy for primary Crohn's disease of the appendix has been observed in a number of long-term follow-up studies, preoperative fistula formation is extremely rare.
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