Clinical characteristics of patients reported in the literature with GCT of the appendix
Case number | Author(s), year | Age, gender | Clinical symptoms | Radiology assumption | Size of tumour (cm) |
1 | Wanick, 19564 | 30s, female | Acute pain in right iliac fossa, vomiting and diarrhoea | Acute appendicitis | 0.5 and 1 (double nodules) |
2 | Hausman, 19635 | 40s, male | NP | NP | 0.8 |
3 | Apisarnthanarax, 19816 | 30s, female | NP | NP | 5 |
4 | Sarma et al, 19847 | 50s, male | Asymptomatic | NP | 0.5 |
5 | Fried et al, 19848 | 30s, male | NP | NP | 0.8 |
6 | Pipeleers-Marichal et al, 19909 | 40s, male | Asymptomatic | NP | 4 |
7 | Kaltschmidt et al, 199210 | 30s, male | NP | Acute appendicitis | NP |
8 | Gavelli et al, 200511 | 40s, male | Acute pain in right iliac fossa and fever | Acute appendicitis | 0.5 |
9 | Moreno Gijon et al, 200912 | 30s, female | Acute pain in right iliac fossa | Endometrioma | NP |
10 | Saleh et al, 200913 | 60s, female | Asymptomatic | NP | 0.5 |
11 | Singhi and Montgomery 201014 | 40s, female | NP | Acute appendicitis | 0.6 |
12 | Zoccali, 201115 | late adolescence, male | Acute pain in right lower quadrant | Abscess | 3.5 |
13 | Roncati et al, 20131 | 40s, female | Acute pain in right lower quadrant, pain at defecation, tenesmus, rectal bleeding and haematuria | Phlegmon | 0.2 |
14 | Roy and Goswami, 201516 | 20s, male | Acute pain in right iliac fossa and vomiting | NP | NP |
15 | Allison and Rao, 20202 | 50s, female | NP | NP | NP |
16 | Current case | 30s, female | Acute pelvic pain | Phlegmon | 0.5 |
Source: PubMed.
GCT, granular cell tumour; NP, not provided.