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Appendicular Mucocele: A Rare Diagnosis Made by Use of Ultrasound and Its Histopathological Correlation
Received date: 2022-05-05
Revised date: 2022-05-26
Accepted date: 2022-06-12
Online published: 2022-10-25
Appendiceal mucocele is a rare disease. Sometimes it is discovered accidentally and sometimes it resembles acute appendicitis. The incidence is 0.2% to 0.7% of all appendectomies specimens. A case report of A 35-year female presented to the emergency room with a history of progressively increasing abdominal pain on and off for 3 months. Tenderness in the right lower quadrant of the abdomen was noted with a palpable mass in the right iliac fossa. An abdominal ultrasound examination was performed, and the patient was found to have an Appendicular mucocele-onion peel sign (sonographic layering within a cystic mass). The patient underwent surgery, and the diagnosis was confirmed by the histopathological report. If mucocele is treated incorrectly, pseudomyxoma peritonei which is characterized by a malignant process may develop. The term mucocele is widely used in diagnosing both benign and malignant lesions.
Sachin Khanduri , Surbhi , Ashkrit Gupta , Harleen Chawla , Asif Khan , Vaibhav Pathak , Saim Ali Siddiqui , Shahnawaz , Shreya Chitravanshi , Rohit . Appendicular Mucocele: A Rare Diagnosis Made by Use of Ultrasound and Its Histopathological Correlation[J]. ADVANCED ULTRASOUND IN DIAGNOSIS AND THERAPY, 2022 , 6(4) : 214 -216 . DOI: 10.37015/AUDT.2022.220019
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