Intussusception of an appendiceal mucocele: report of a case.
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.
Tsunoda
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T
Second Department of Surgery, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, Japan.
Eto
T
T
Maeda
H
H
Mochinaga
N
N
Terada
M
M
Matsuo
S
S
Tsuchiya
R
R
Takahara
Y
Y
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