TITLE:
A Rare Cause of Abdominal Pain: Mucocele of Appendix
AUTHORS:
Mountassir Moujahid, Issam Ennafaa, El Ghari Mohamed, Issam Serghini, Moulay El Hassan Tahiri
KEYWORDS:
Appendix; Mucocele; Peritoneal Pseudomyxoma; Diagnosis; Surgical Treatment
JOURNAL NAME:
International Journal of Clinical Medicine,
Vol.5 No.6,
March
28,
2014
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 5th Military Hospital.