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Query: UMLS:C0003615 (appendicitis)
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326 patients presenting with acute abdominal pain to a hospital in Tampere were compared with others in England and Norway, and with a large series of 6097 cases collected under the auspices of the World Organization of Gastro-Enterology. The distribution of disease in these 326 Finnish patients bore remarkable similarities to the distribution in other countries. When subjected to a computer-aided diagnostic analysis, comparing Finnish patients with UK and world-wide data, as regards appendicitis, cholecystitis and nonspecific pain, the computer performed roughly as well as the clinicians diagnosing the same cases. It is concluded that these diseases therefore have a common presentation in Finland with that elsewhere. As regards small bowel obstruction however, the computer diagnosed only 22% of cases correctly, (compared with the accuracy of clinical diagnosis 73%). This leads us to conclude that this disease presents unusually in Scandinavia, and possible reasons are discussed.
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PMID:Presentation and diagnosis of acute abdominal pain in Finland: a computer aided study. 636 50

Gastro-duodenal Crohn's disease is rare. Thirty-one previously reported cases are briefly reviewed; histological confirmation of the diagnosis was not always possible. Details are given of a patient with pyloro-duodenal involvement accompanied by terminal ileitis and appendicitis where surgical specimens were available for study. The differential diagnosis is considered from the clinical and pathological aspects.
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PMID:GASTRO-DUODENAL CROHN'S DISEASE. 1410 12

Gastro-intestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) of the appendix are a rare entity. To date, only eight cases has been described in the literature, most of which have been of the benign type. We report a new case of an appendiceal GIST in a 75-year-old man. The tumor was discovered when the patient presented with acute appendiceacal peritonitis. Preoperative diagnosis of appendiceal GIST was rarely done as tumors were usually associated with appendicitis-like symptoms.
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PMID:Appendiceal GIST: report of an exceptional case and review of the literature. 2417 Oct 67