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A giant low-grade appendiceal mucinous neoplasm (LAMN) presenting as ileocecal intussusception: a case report
We report the rare case of a giant low-grade appendiceal mucinous neoplasm (LAMN), presenting as ileocecal intussusception. An 80-year-old woman presented in the emergency department of our institution with progressively worsening diffuse abdominal pain during the last 24 h. A CT scan revealed a gia...
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2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10224788/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37251252 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjad273 |
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author | Liapis, Stavros C Perivoliotis, Konstantinos Psarianos, Kyriakos Chatzinikolaou, Charito Moula, Amalia I Skoufogiannis, Pavlos Balogiannis, Ioannis Lytras, Dimitrios |
author_facet | Liapis, Stavros C Perivoliotis, Konstantinos Psarianos, Kyriakos Chatzinikolaou, Charito Moula, Amalia I Skoufogiannis, Pavlos Balogiannis, Ioannis Lytras, Dimitrios |
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description | We report the rare case of a giant low-grade appendiceal mucinous neoplasm (LAMN), presenting as ileocecal intussusception. An 80-year-old woman presented in the emergency department of our institution with progressively worsening diffuse abdominal pain during the last 24 h. A CT scan revealed a giant abdominal mass (98.7 × 127.3 × 107.6 mm) with air-fluid level and imaging characteristics of ileocecal intussusception. An emergency exploratory laparotomy was performed, and a well-circumscribed cystic mass deriving from the appendix was found. A right hemicolectomy was performed, and the histopathological examination confirmed the diagnosis of LAMN. This report aims to raise awareness among surgeons and radiologists, about LAMNs as a differential diagnosis of right iliac fossa masses presenting as acute abdomen. |
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spelling | pubmed-102247882023-05-28 A giant low-grade appendiceal mucinous neoplasm (LAMN) presenting as ileocecal intussusception: a case report Liapis, Stavros C Perivoliotis, Konstantinos Psarianos, Kyriakos Chatzinikolaou, Charito Moula, Amalia I Skoufogiannis, Pavlos Balogiannis, Ioannis Lytras, Dimitrios J Surg Case Rep Case Report We report the rare case of a giant low-grade appendiceal mucinous neoplasm (LAMN), presenting as ileocecal intussusception. An 80-year-old woman presented in the emergency department of our institution with progressively worsening diffuse abdominal pain during the last 24 h. A CT scan revealed a giant abdominal mass (98.7 × 127.3 × 107.6 mm) with air-fluid level and imaging characteristics of ileocecal intussusception. An emergency exploratory laparotomy was performed, and a well-circumscribed cystic mass deriving from the appendix was found. A right hemicolectomy was performed, and the histopathological examination confirmed the diagnosis of LAMN. This report aims to raise awareness among surgeons and radiologists, about LAMNs as a differential diagnosis of right iliac fossa masses presenting as acute abdomen. Oxford University Press 2023-05-27 /pmc/articles/PMC10224788/ /pubmed/37251252 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjad273 Text en Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. © The Author(s) 2023. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Liapis, Stavros C Perivoliotis, Konstantinos Psarianos, Kyriakos Chatzinikolaou, Charito Moula, Amalia I Skoufogiannis, Pavlos Balogiannis, Ioannis Lytras, Dimitrios A giant low-grade appendiceal mucinous neoplasm (LAMN) presenting as ileocecal intussusception: a case report |
title | A giant low-grade appendiceal mucinous neoplasm (LAMN) presenting as ileocecal intussusception: a case report |
title_full | A giant low-grade appendiceal mucinous neoplasm (LAMN) presenting as ileocecal intussusception: a case report |
title_fullStr | A giant low-grade appendiceal mucinous neoplasm (LAMN) presenting as ileocecal intussusception: a case report |
title_full_unstemmed | A giant low-grade appendiceal mucinous neoplasm (LAMN) presenting as ileocecal intussusception: a case report |
title_short | A giant low-grade appendiceal mucinous neoplasm (LAMN) presenting as ileocecal intussusception: a case report |
title_sort | giant low-grade appendiceal mucinous neoplasm (lamn) presenting as ileocecal intussusception: a case report |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10224788/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37251252 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjad273 |
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