Mucinous cystadenoma of the appendix: diagnosis, surgical management, and follow-up

• Published in: Current surgery Vol. 60; no. 3; pp. 341 - 343
• Main Authors: Zagrodnik, Dennis F, Rose, D.Michael
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.05.2003
• Subjects: Aged; Appendiceal Neoplasms - diagnosis; Appendiceal Neoplasms - pathology; Appendiceal Neoplasms - surgery; appendiceal tumors; appendix; Colectomy; Colonoscopy; Cystadenoma, Mucinous - diagnosis; Cystadenoma, Mucinous - pathology; Cystadenoma, Mucinous - surgery; Female; Humans; mucinous cystadenocarcinoma; mucinous cystadenoma; Tomography, X-Ray Computed; mucinous cystadenoma; appendix; mucinous cystadenocarcinoma; appendiceal tumors
• ISSN: 0149-7944; 1879-0321
• DOI: 10.1016/S0149-7944(02)00728-6

To review the diagnostic examination and clinical presentation of mucinous cystadenoma of the appendix. Case report from experience at an Air Force tertiary care hospital in a 66-year-old woman with chronic right lower quadrant pain. After extensive preoperative evaluation and subsequent diagnostic laparoscopy, a right hemicolectomy was performed for a mucinous cystadenoma of the appendix. Appendiceal mucinous cystadenoma is a rare entity found in only 0.3% of appendiceal specimens. Preoperative evaluation with radiologic and endoscopic methods is helpful but not always diagnostic. Although a benign disease process, complications from rupture, invasion into adjacent organs, or recurrence warrant adherence to strict oncologic principles for resection.