Acute appendicitis the first sign of appendiceal metastasis of an inoperable carcinoma of stomach—A case report and a review of literature

Abstract

Appendicitis is the most common cause of the acute abdomen and usually occurs because of the fecalith in adults and lymphoid hyperplasia in childhood. Gastric cancer metastasis to the appendix is a rare condition that might be present with symptoms of acute appendicitis. The English literature describes only thirteen cases of gastric carcinoma metastasizing to the appendix and presenting as acute appendicitis. In this report, we describe the first case of metastatic signet ring cell carcinoma of appendix presenting with clinical features of acute appendicitis.

Keywords

• appendicitis
• gastric cancer
• metastasis in appendix
• signet ring cell carcinoma