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Fatima Ezzahra Zahid, Karim Ibn Majdoub, Hicham Anoune, Abdelmalk Ousadden, Khalid Mazaz, Khalid Ait Taleb. Uncommon mimics of appendicitis: giant mucocele. The Pan African Medical Journal. 2010;7:7 Key words: Abdominal pain, appendicitis, mucocele, complication, malignancy, Morocco Permanent link: http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/7/7/full Received: 03/10/2010 - Accepted: 30/09/2010 - Published: 21/10/2010 © Fatima Ezzahra Zahid et al. The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Uncommon mimics of appendicitis: giant mucocele
Fatima Ezzahra Zahid1,&, Karim Ibn Majdoub1, Hicham Anoune1, Abdelmalk Ousadden1, Khalid Mazaz1, Khalid Ait Taleb1
1Department of General Surgery, CHU Hassan II Fes, Morocco
&Corresponding author
Fatima Ezzahra Zahid, Department of General Surgery, CHU Hassan II Fes, Morocco
Abstract
Appendiceal mucocele is an infrequent but well recognized entity that can present with a variety of clinical syndromes or can be asymptomatic and discovered incidentally. A 55 years old patient was admitted in the emergency department for acute right lower quadrant pain. A diagnosis of appendicitis was made. At operation an appendiceal mucocele was found. An appendectomy was performed. The diagnosis of appendiceal mucocele is an important one in that it can be associated with malignancies and other serious gastrointestinal, ovarian, and urological complications.
