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Appendiceal mucocele in a patient with recurrent breast cancer - a case report and literature review
Ilija Guteša
; Department of Surgical Oncology, University Hospital for Tumors, Zagreb, Croatia
Mladen Stanec
; Department of Surgical Oncology, University Hospital for Tumors, Zagreb, Croatia
Danko Velimir Vrdoljak
; Department of Surgical Oncology, University Hospital for Tumors, Zagreb, Croatia
Ivan Milas
; Department of Surgical Oncology, University Hospital for Tumors, Zagreb, Croatia
Ivan Penavić
; Department of Surgical Oncology, University Hospital for Tumors, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Mucocele or cystic distention of the appendix is a rare entity found in only 0.25% of all appendectomies and 8% of all appendicular tumors. We report a case of a 68-year-old female patient in whom asymptomatic mucocele was found at abdominal CT imaging a month after excision of recurrent invasive ductal carcinoma to the right pectoral region, and 26 years after modifed radical mastectomy. After adequate preoperative treatment, a right hemicolectomy was performed with the final pathology of mucocele of the appendix.
Keywords
mukolela apendiksa; recidiv karcinoma dojke
Hrčak ID:
280352
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Publication date:
27.11.2008.
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