Appendiceal abscess: pathologic definitions and a diagnostic framework—SIRC/SICUT consensus
Roberto Cirocchi, Gioia Brachini, Giovanni Alemanno, Massimiliano Allegritti, Lana Al-Sabe, Gabriele Anania, Nikolaos-Achilleas Arkoudis, Marco Assenza, Paolo Aurello, Francesco Barberini, Guido Bellezza, Maria Irene Bellini, Alan Biloslavo, Carlo Boselli, Francesco Brucchi, Paolo Bruzzone, Diletta Cassini, Isaac Cheruiyot, Bruno Cirillo, Federico Coccolini, Mario Corona, Piero Covarelli, Valerio Cozza, Daniele Crocetti, Justin Davies, Gunjan Desai, Saurabh Dixit, Alessandro Spizzirri, Vincenzo Napolitano, Daniele Giuliani, Alessio Giordano, Akinfemi Akingboye, Weihua Gong, Salvatore Guarino, Ahmed H I Helmy, Sara Lauricella, Augusto Lauro, Gianluca Mascianà, Matteo Matteucci, Alessandra Panarese · 2026
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Roberto Cirocchi leads a 2026 Italian consensus effort fixing shared definitions for appendiceal abscesses, pus collections arising from appendicitis, are defined and diagnosed. Abscess cases vary widely in what drives them and how scans show them, and loose wording has kept studies hard to compare. Two national surgical groups ran a four-round Delphi process, a structured method for building expert agreement, ending with a meeting in Rome in November 2025.
Panellists agreed 22 statements in total. The first seven map the range from simple appendix inflammation through swollen, gangrenous, and burst forms, and they separate true abscesses from appendix masses. A companion imaging framework built on CT descriptors ties scan wording to tissue findings. The authors offer the shared scheme to improve how surgeons, radiologists, and pathologists talk to each other and to make future studies comparable.
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| CREATOR | Roberto Cirocchi, Gioia Brachini, Giovanni Alemanno, Massimiliano Allegritti, Lana Al-Sabe, Gabriele Anania, Nikolaos-Achilleas Arkoudis, Marco Assenza, Paolo Aurello, Francesco Barberini, Guido Bellezza, Maria Irene Bellini, Alan Biloslavo, Carlo Boselli, Francesco Brucchi, Paolo Bruzzone, Diletta Cassini, Isaac Cheruiyot, Bruno Cirillo, Federico Coccolini, Mario Corona, Piero Covarelli, Valerio Cozza, Daniele Crocetti, Justin Davies, Gunjan Desai, Saurabh Dixit, Alessandro Spizzirri, Vincenzo Napolitano, Daniele Giuliani, Alessio Giordano, Akinfemi Akingboye, Weihua Gong, Salvatore Guarino, Ahmed H I Helmy, Sara Lauricella, Augusto Lauro, Gianluca Mascianà, Matteo Matteucci, Alessandra Panarese |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
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| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |