IDIOPATHIC GRANULOMATOUS APPENDICITIS - REPORT OF 5 CASES, ONE OF WHICH PRESENTED AS MIGRATORY ARTHRITIS

The clinical presentation of acute appendicitis and the idiopathic gra nulomatous variety are, as a rule, indistinguishable. Five patients wi th idiopathic granulomatous appendicitis, treated during past decade, had histological acute and chronic appendicitis abounding with granulo mas. Investigations not disclosing a systemic or enteric granulomatous disease and the patients' long-term complete postoperative recovery s upport the diagnosis of idiopathic granulomatous appendicitis.