Mucinous adenocarcinoma of the appendix presenting with atypical symptomatology and presence of pseudomyxoma peritonei: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Primary tumors of the appendix are unusual and most of them are carcinoids. Their main presentation is that of an acute appendicitis or as a palpable mass, mainly in the right lower quadrant. CASE PRESENTATION: A female patient with mucous adenocarcinoma of the appendix, which primaril...

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Autores principales: Alexiou, Konstantinos, Sikalias, Nikolaos, Demonakou, Maria, Mylona, Sylvia-Christina, Triantafyllis, Vasileios, Kalogirou, Asimina, Antsaklis, Georgios
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2803886/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20062726
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-9089

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