Appendiceal Mucinous Cystadenoma Presenting as "Porcelain" Appendix with Myxoglobulosis - A Rare Cause of a Right Lower Quadrant Mass

Singapore Medical Journal

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 174-176

  Lo, R H G ^a   Kan, P S ^b  

^a SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Appendix mucocoele; Mucinous cystadenoma; Myxoglobulosis; Pseudomyxoma peritonei; Vermiform appendix

Indexed keywords

BARIUM SULFATE; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

APPENDECTOMY; APPENDIX; APPENDIX TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CECUM DISEASE; CYSTADENOMA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUCOCELE; PATHOLOGY; PERITONEUM PSEUDOMYXOMA; PERITONEUM TUMOR; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; RUPTURE;

APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICEAL NEOPLASMS; APPENDIX; BARIUM SULFATE; CECAL DISEASES; CONTRAST MEDIA; CYSTADENOMA, MUCINOUS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUCOCELE; PERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; PSEUDOMYXOMA PERITONEI; RISK FACTORS; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS;

EID: 0032036879     PISSN: 00375675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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