Appendiceal Mass - Dilemmas Regarding Extension of the Resection

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Appendiceal Mass - Dilemmas Regarding Extension of the Resection

Daniel Ion, Mihai Bogdan Serban, Dan Nicolae Păduraru, Adriana Elena Nica, Al-Moushaly Rahim, Octavian Andronic
Clinical case, no. 1, 2019
Article DOI: 10.21614/chirurgia.114.1.126
Starting from a typical case, we try to highlight the main critical elements, both in the diagnostic algorithm and in the therapeutic one. We hereby present a 54-year old patient, known with hepatic steatosis and renal microlithiasis, which undergoes an ultrasonography in ambulatory, on the background of unsystematised abdominal discomfort; the ultrasound reveals the presence of a tumoral mass in the right iliac fossa.

Keywords: appendiceal mucocele, appendectomy, appendiceal mass