Adenocarcinoma mimicking appendicular lump: a diagnostic dilemma—a case report

BACKGROUND: Primary appendiceal adenocarcinoma is a rare tumor, mucinous variety being common. This case is reported to highlight the unusual presentation and diagnostic difficulty of appendiceal adenocarcinoma. CASE PRESENTATION: Patient presented with acute appendicitis with ill-defined tender lum...

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Autores principales: Kalpande, Sanket, Pandya, Jayashri, Sharma, Tushar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5106774/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27835997
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12957-016-1036-9
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description BACKGROUND: Primary appendiceal adenocarcinoma is a rare tumor, mucinous variety being common. This case is reported to highlight the unusual presentation and diagnostic difficulty of appendiceal adenocarcinoma. CASE PRESENTATION: Patient presented with acute appendicitis with ill-defined tender lump which responded to conservative management. CONCLUSIONS: High index of suspicion should be kept in mind for elderly patients presenting with appendicular lump. Every effort should be made during elective appendectomy to remove stump in case of sloughed out appendix.
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spelling pubmed-51067742016-11-17 Adenocarcinoma mimicking appendicular lump: a diagnostic dilemma—a case report Kalpande, Sanket Pandya, Jayashri Sharma, Tushar World J Surg Oncol Case Report BACKGROUND: Primary appendiceal adenocarcinoma is a rare tumor, mucinous variety being common. This case is reported to highlight the unusual presentation and diagnostic difficulty of appendiceal adenocarcinoma. CASE PRESENTATION: Patient presented with acute appendicitis with ill-defined tender lump which responded to conservative management. CONCLUSIONS: High index of suspicion should be kept in mind for elderly patients presenting with appendicular lump. Every effort should be made during elective appendectomy to remove stump in case of sloughed out appendix. BioMed Central 2016-11-11 /pmc/articles/PMC5106774/ /pubmed/27835997 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12957-016-1036-9 Text en © The Author(s). 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Adenocarcinoma mimicking appendicular lump: a diagnostic dilemma—a case report
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title_full Adenocarcinoma mimicking appendicular lump: a diagnostic dilemma—a case report
title_fullStr Adenocarcinoma mimicking appendicular lump: a diagnostic dilemma—a case report
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title_short Adenocarcinoma mimicking appendicular lump: a diagnostic dilemma—a case report
title_sort adenocarcinoma mimicking appendicular lump: a diagnostic dilemma—a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5106774/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27835997
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12957-016-1036-9
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