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Giant Appendiceal Mucocele: Report of a Case

Ichiro Akagi^1,2, Kimiyoshi Yokoi¹, Kimiyoshi Shimanuki², Shuichi Satake², Koki Takeda^1,2, Tetsuya Shimizu¹, Ryota Kondo¹, Yoshikazu Kanazawa¹ and Eiji Uchida¹

¹Department of Gastrointestinal and Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery, Nippon Medical School
²Department of Surgery, Aizu Central Hospital

Mucoceles of the appendix are a group of mucus-filled lesions causing obstructive dilation of the ileocecal appendix. We report a rare case of giant appendiceal mucocele. A 48-year-old woman, with no discomfort, was admitted to our hospital after a mass was detected in the right lower quadrant of the abdomen. The patient underwent right hemicolectomy on the basis of the clinical diagnosis of a possible appendiceal tumor. The final pathologic diagnosis was mucocele of the appendix.

J Nippon Med Sch 2014; 81: 110-113

Keywords
appendiceal mucocele

Correspondence to
Ichiro Akagi, MD, PhD, Department of Gastrointestinal and Hepato-Billary-Pancreatic Surgery, Nippon Medical School, 1-1-5 Sendagi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8603, Japan
ichiro@nms.ac.jp

Received, April 9, 2013
Accepted, July 22, 2013