title: Intussusception of an appendiceal mucocele: report of a case.
abstract: A 66 year old Japanese female was admitted to our department for the examination and treatment of a mass in the cecum. She had experienced no symptoms or signs other than a positive test result for fecal occult blood. The mass in the cecum was confirmed by barium enema, colonofiberscopy and CT scanning. The presumptive diagnosis was a submucosal tumor of the cecum, however, a laparotomy subsequently revealed intussusception of an appendiceal mass. An ileocaecal resection with an ileocolic anastomosis was therefore performed and the mass was histologically diagnosed as a mucocele of the appendix. This patient is only the 24th case of intussusception of a mucocele of the appendix to be reported in Japan. A review of the available literature on this condition follows the case report.
authors.affiliation: Second Department of Surgery, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tsunoda
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Eto
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Maeda
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Mochinaga
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Terada
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Matsuo
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tsuchiya
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Takahara
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001065:Appendix; D002429:Cecal Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007443:Intussusception / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D009078:Mucocele / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery