Uncommon mimics of appendicitis: giant mucocele

Appendiceal mucocele is an infrequent but well recognized entity that can present with a variety of clinical syndromes or can be asymptomatic and discovered incidentally. A 55 years old patient was admitted in the emergency department for acute right lower quadrant pain. A diagnosis of appendicitis...

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Autores principales: Fatima Ezzahra, Zahid, Ibn Majdoub, Karim, Hicham, Anoune, Ousadden, Abdelmalk, Mazaz, Khalid, Ait Taleb, Khalid
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: African Field Epidemiology Network 2010
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Life Sciences
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3172631/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21918695
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author Fatima Ezzahra, Zahid
Ibn Majdoub, Karim
Hicham, Anoune
Ousadden, Abdelmalk
Mazaz, Khalid
Ait Taleb, Khalid
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description Appendiceal mucocele is an infrequent but well recognized entity that can present with a variety of clinical syndromes or can be asymptomatic and discovered incidentally. A 55 years old patient was admitted in the emergency department for acute right lower quadrant pain. A diagnosis of appendicitis was made. At operation an appendiceal mucocele was found. An appendectomy was performed. The diagnosis of appendiceal mucocele is an important one in that it can be associated with malignancies and other serious gastrointestinal, ovarian, and urological complications.
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spelling pubmed-31726312011-09-14 Uncommon mimics of appendicitis: giant mucocele Fatima Ezzahra, Zahid Ibn Majdoub, Karim Hicham, Anoune Ousadden, Abdelmalk Mazaz, Khalid Ait Taleb, Khalid Pan Afr Med J Life Sciences Appendiceal mucocele is an infrequent but well recognized entity that can present with a variety of clinical syndromes or can be asymptomatic and discovered incidentally. A 55 years old patient was admitted in the emergency department for acute right lower quadrant pain. A diagnosis of appendicitis was made. At operation an appendiceal mucocele was found. An appendectomy was performed. The diagnosis of appendiceal mucocele is an important one in that it can be associated with malignancies and other serious gastrointestinal, ovarian, and urological complications. African Field Epidemiology Network 2010-10-21 /pmc/articles/PMC3172631/ /pubmed/21918695 Text en Fatima Ezzahra Zahid et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Uncommon mimics of appendicitis: giant mucocele
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title_full Uncommon mimics of appendicitis: giant mucocele
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