Resumen

GALANO URGELLES, Rolando; CASAUS PRIETO, Arbelio  y  RODRIGUEZ FERNANDEZ, Zenén. Adenocarcinoma primario del apéndice cecal. Rev Cubana Cir [online]. 1998, vol.37, n.2, pp.119-125. ISSN 0034-7493.

A lengthwise and prospective study of 5 patients operated from appendix ceci cancer, who were attended in the follow-up consultation room for patients operated from colo-rectal cancer was performed. The analysis underlined that the most frequent age was over 50 years-old and males were predominant. During the follow-up period, one of the patients was operated again and treated with 5-fluoroacyl; adenocarcinoma prevailed as hystological variant and its diagnosis was always confirmed by the Pathological Anatomy Department. The sample of 5 patients represented 1.2 % of the cases attending our consultation room and 0.4 % of appendectomy-operated patients in our hospital during the studied period. The massive continuos screening of risk groups at the primary care level is recommended so as to early detect adenocarcinoma and thus improve the surgical and posoperative follow-up results and apply the Sieracki's therapy to this disease

Palabras clave : APPENDICEAL NEOPLASMS [surgery]; ADENOCARCINOMA [surgery]; APPENDECTOMY; COLECTOMY [methods].