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Wednesday 12 June 2024

CASE 769: APPENDICULAR MUCOCELE, Dr PHAN THANH HẢI , Dr VÕ THỊ THANH THẢO, MEDIC MEDICAL CENTER, HCMC, VIETNAM.

 A 62 year-old woman in check-up with her past history of surgery for an intracrania hemorrhagia and ovarian cyst.

Abdominal ultrasound detected a RLQ cystic mass #47×27mm beside the right colon which filled off debris that maybe a mucocele or a  pseudomyxoma peritonei.



Lab data were normal.

MSCT confirmed an # 42x22 mm appendiceal mucocele.



Surgery removed  a cystic mass at the end of the appendix.



Histopathological result was mucocele low grade.


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