In cases of a perforated appendix, I sometimes find the appendix, including the base, grossly gangrenous and seemingly undergoing autolysis. I find it impossible to place a good ligature around the ...
A 52-year-old man had a radical right colectomy for a sarcoma of the cecal wall (high grade of malignancy, 10 cells/field). On a postoperative computerized tomography (CT) scan 2 months later, a 3-cm ...