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 ...

Recently, I operated on a 76-year-old woman for bowel obstruction. At laparotomy, I found a 2.5-cm tumor, 5 cm from the ileocecal valve with no macroscopic metastases or suspicious nodes. This was ...