A Rare Cause of Abdominal Pain: Mucocele of Appendix

Mountassir Moujahid, Issam Ennafaa, El Ghari Mohamed, Issam Serghini, Moulay El Hassan Tahiri

Department of General Surgery, 5th Miltary Hospital, Guelmim, Morocco.
Department of Radiology, 5th Miltary Hospital, Guel-mim, Morocco.
Department of Reanimation, 5th Miltary Hospital, Guelmim, Morocco.

DOI: 10.4236/ijcm.2014.56045                

Abstract

The mucocele of appendix or mucosecreting tumor is a rare affection defined as a cystic dilatation of the light of the appendix following the intra luminal accumulation of mucinous, translucent, gelatinous, secretion which may reach either the entire organ or a segment more often distal. The pathogenesisis is discussed; the diagnosis is more often preoperative. The therapeutic depends on the histological nature. This goes from the simple appendicectomy, whose shapes are benign to the right hemicolectomy in the malignant mucocele. We report a case collaged in the general surgical service of the 5^th Military Hospital.

Keywords

Appendix; Mucocele; Peritoneal Pseudomyxoma; Diagnosis; Surgical Treatment

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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