Isolated Crohn’s Disease of the Appendix Presenting as Acute Appendicitis in a 60-Year-Old South Asian Female: A Case Report, Review of Literature, and Follow-Up Recommendations

Table 1

Summary of case series and reports on appendiceal Crohn’s disease diagnosed following appendectomy for acute appendicitis.

No.	Author	Year	Region	Sample	Further tests	Further treatment	Follow-up
1	Yang	1966-1977	Michigan, USA	14	Colonoscopy	1: resection of ascending colon, 1: total colectomy, 1: ileal and caecal resection	Other patients: asymptomatic on long-term follow-up
2	Ariel	1986	Israel	20	Colonoscopy	None	No recurrence
3	Prieto-Nieto	1975-1995	Madrid, Spain	10 (0.2%)	Colonoscopy	1: excision of enterocutaneous fistula	No recurrence
4	Akbulut	2006-2010	Diyarbakir, Turkey	18 of 5262	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported
5	Emre	2009-2012	Malatya, Turkey	6 of 1255 showed granulomatous inflammation	Negative for TB	Not reported	Not reported
6	Yokota	2010	Japan	1	Colonoscopy	None	No recurrence
7	Han	2007-2013	Seoul, South Korea	12 of 2179	Colonoscopy, AFB and Tb-PCR negative	None	No recurrence
8	El-Saady	2016	Egypt	1	Colonoscopy	None	No recurrence