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Revista Cubana de Medicina Militar

versión impresa ISSN 0138-6557versión On-line ISSN 1561-3046

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SANTIESTEBAN PUPO, Wilfredo Ernesto; BORGES SANDRINO, René Santiago  y  RAMON MUSIBAY, Enia. Apendicular mucocele. Rev Cub Med Mil [online]. 2020, vol.49, n.2, e368.  Epub 01-Jun-2020. ISSN 0138-6557.

Introduction:

The mucocele is the abnormal mucous accumulation inside the light of the appendix.

Objective:

To present an unusual case of surgery of urgency with abdominal pain and suspicion of appendicitis operated in emergency.

Clinical case:

Female patient of 32 years old that consults for abdominal pain in the right iliac fossa, accompanied by nausea. Physical examination we find pain to the palpation in the right iliac fossa and peritoneal reaction being operated with suspicion of appendicitis, during intervention we find the appendix augmented of volume and apendicectomy was made. The histopathological study informed a apendicular mucocele. The patient was discharged after 48 hours without further complications.

Conclusions:

Apendicular mucocele is very uncommon disease that predominates in female sex and persons between fifty and sixty years old. Treatment is surgical.

Palabras clave : mucocele; appendix; appendicitis; tumour.

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