Cone-shaped cecum (differential)

A cone-shaped cecum refers to a loss of the normal rounded appearance of the cecum, which instead becomes narrow and cone-shaped with the apex pointing towards the base of the appendix. It is encountered in a number of conditions including:

• inflammatory
  • infective
    • blastomycosis
    • amoebiasis
    • Yersinia enterocolitis
    • tuberculosis
    • typhoid fever
    • typhlitis
    • cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection
  • non-infective
    • inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
    • appendicitis
    • diverticulitis
• malignant
  • colonic adenocarcinoma
  • metastasis

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