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Superinfection of an Obstructive Appendiceal Mucocele: A Case Report

Appendiceal mucocele is an uncommon entity that may arise due to benign or malignant processes. The radiologic exploration of this entity is necessary for diagnosis, and its imaging manifestations vary, with some findings being more common than others. More specifically, the radiological findings of...

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Autores principales: Charalambous, Christofis, Charalambous, Thalis, Nikitaras, Aristotelis, Christodoulou, Prokopis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9090127/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35547418
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.23974
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author Charalambous, Christofis
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Nikitaras, Aristotelis
Christodoulou, Prokopis
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description Appendiceal mucocele is an uncommon entity that may arise due to benign or malignant processes. The radiologic exploration of this entity is necessary for diagnosis, and its imaging manifestations vary, with some findings being more common than others. More specifically, the radiological findings of a superinfected mucocele are rare, with few reports in the literature. Herein we present the case of a 68-year-old male patient with a superinfected appendiceal obstructive mucocele caused by a fecalith, which was diagnosed by abdominal CT evaluation.
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spelling pubmed-90901272022-05-10 Superinfection of an Obstructive Appendiceal Mucocele: A Case Report Charalambous, Christofis Charalambous, Thalis Nikitaras, Aristotelis Christodoulou, Prokopis Cureus Radiology Appendiceal mucocele is an uncommon entity that may arise due to benign or malignant processes. The radiologic exploration of this entity is necessary for diagnosis, and its imaging manifestations vary, with some findings being more common than others. More specifically, the radiological findings of a superinfected mucocele are rare, with few reports in the literature. Herein we present the case of a 68-year-old male patient with a superinfected appendiceal obstructive mucocele caused by a fecalith, which was diagnosed by abdominal CT evaluation. Cureus 2022-04-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9090127/ /pubmed/35547418 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.23974 Text en Copyright © 2022, Charalambous et al. https://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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Superinfection of an Obstructive Appendiceal Mucocele: A Case Report
title Superinfection of an Obstructive Appendiceal Mucocele: A Case Report
title_full Superinfection of an Obstructive Appendiceal Mucocele: A Case Report
title_fullStr Superinfection of an Obstructive Appendiceal Mucocele: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Superinfection of an Obstructive Appendiceal Mucocele: A Case Report
title_short Superinfection of an Obstructive Appendiceal Mucocele: A Case Report
title_sort superinfection of an obstructive appendiceal mucocele: a case report
topic Radiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9090127/
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