Pseudomyxoma Peritonei Secondary to a Primary Appendix Tumor: A Belly Full of Jelly

Pseudomyxoma peritonei (PMP) is a rare and life-threatening cancer of the abdominal peritoneum. Symptoms can be non-specific and ignorable for several years such that most cases are diagnosed during explorative surgery. The cornerstones of diagnosis and effective management are heightened awareness...

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Autores principales: Sorungbe, Adebola O, Whiles, Emily, Drye, Elisabeth, Oyibo, Samson O
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Pathology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6728781/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31523583
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5221
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Whiles, Emily
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Oyibo, Samson O
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description Pseudomyxoma peritonei (PMP) is a rare and life-threatening cancer of the abdominal peritoneum. Symptoms can be non-specific and ignorable for several years such that most cases are diagnosed during explorative surgery. The cornerstones of diagnosis and effective management are heightened awareness and clinical suspicion, timely recognition, and early referral to a specialist center for work-up and cytoreductive surgery. We report an interesting case of a patient with PMP who had successful cytoreductive surgery and heated intraperitoneal chemotherapy.
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spelling pubmed-67287812019-09-14 Pseudomyxoma Peritonei Secondary to a Primary Appendix Tumor: A Belly Full of Jelly Sorungbe, Adebola O Whiles, Emily Drye, Elisabeth Oyibo, Samson O Cureus Pathology Pseudomyxoma peritonei (PMP) is a rare and life-threatening cancer of the abdominal peritoneum. Symptoms can be non-specific and ignorable for several years such that most cases are diagnosed during explorative surgery. The cornerstones of diagnosis and effective management are heightened awareness and clinical suspicion, timely recognition, and early referral to a specialist center for work-up and cytoreductive surgery. We report an interesting case of a patient with PMP who had successful cytoreductive surgery and heated intraperitoneal chemotherapy. Cureus 2019-07-24 /pmc/articles/PMC6728781/ /pubmed/31523583 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5221 Text en Copyright © 2019, Sorungbe et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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 author and source are credited.
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Pseudomyxoma Peritonei Secondary to a Primary Appendix Tumor: A Belly Full of Jelly
title Pseudomyxoma Peritonei Secondary to a Primary Appendix Tumor: A Belly Full of Jelly
title_full Pseudomyxoma Peritonei Secondary to a Primary Appendix Tumor: A Belly Full of Jelly
title_fullStr Pseudomyxoma Peritonei Secondary to a Primary Appendix Tumor: A Belly Full of Jelly
title_full_unstemmed Pseudomyxoma Peritonei Secondary to a Primary Appendix Tumor: A Belly Full of Jelly
title_short Pseudomyxoma Peritonei Secondary to a Primary Appendix Tumor: A Belly Full of Jelly
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6728781/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31523583
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5221
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