Resumen

BEMBILBRE TABOADA, Rubén  y  JIMENEZ, Carlos Jorge. Tumores de apéndice cecal. Rev Cubana Cir [online]. 1998, vol.37, n.2, pp. 116-118. ISSN 1561-2945.

A retrospective-descriptive study of 8 patients with appendix ceci tumors attending the hospital from January 1st, 1990 to January 1st 1997 was made. These patients were operated at "Dr. Gustavo Aldereguía" clinical surgical teaching hospital in Cienfuegos. All the biopsy records of the analyzed period were checked in the Pathological Anatomy Department so as to collect those cases diagnosed with appendix ceci tumors. Medical records were examined and interesting data were collected as follows: sex, clinical symptoms, presumptive diagnosis, anatomopathological diagnosis and type of surgery. Tumors in appendix ceci are unusual and represented 0.38 % of 20 057 analyzed appendixes. Sex was not a determining factor. The disease was slightly predominant in patients over 60. The most frequent clinical findings were: nagging pain in the right inguinal fosa and fever together with adenocarcinoma prevalence

Palabras clave : APPENDICEAL NEOPLASMS [epidemiology].