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DOI: 10.1055/s-2002-35307
© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York
Ultrasound Catheter Probe Detection of Appendiceal Mucocele
K. Akahoshi, M.D.
Department of Gastroenterology, Aso lizuka Hospital
3-83 Yoshio, lizuka 820-8505, Japan
Fax: + 81-948-298747
Email: Kakahoshih1@aih-net.com
Publication History
Publication Date:
13 November 2002 (online)
Figure 1 Colonoscopy on a 70-year-old man revealed a semipedunculated mass arising from the appendiceal orifice. The tumor was smooth and glossy and was covered with almost normal colonic mucosa; a depression in the top of the tumor was identified as the ostium of the vermiform appendix.
Figure 2 Subsequent endosonography using a 12-MHz ultrasound catheter probe (SP-701; Fujinon, Omiya, Japan) revealed a 30 × 20-mm monocystic mass (arrows) which was located in the layers from a the submucosa to b the extracecum. Scattered hyperechoic spots were observed in the cystic mass. Appendectomy was performed.
Figure 3 Incision of the cystic mass revealed that the lumen was filled with a gelatinous material. The histological diagnosis was benign appendiceal mucocele.
K. Akahoshi, M.D.
Department of Gastroenterology, Aso lizuka Hospital
3-83 Yoshio, lizuka 820-8505, Japan
Fax: + 81-948-298747
Email: Kakahoshih1@aih-net.com
K. Akahoshi, M.D.
Department of Gastroenterology, Aso lizuka Hospital
3-83 Yoshio, lizuka 820-8505, Japan
Fax: + 81-948-298747
Email: Kakahoshih1@aih-net.com
Figure 1 Colonoscopy on a 70-year-old man revealed a semipedunculated mass arising from the appendiceal orifice. The tumor was smooth and glossy and was covered with almost normal colonic mucosa; a depression in the top of the tumor was identified as the ostium of the vermiform appendix.
Figure 2 Subsequent endosonography using a 12-MHz ultrasound catheter probe (SP-701; Fujinon, Omiya, Japan) revealed a 30 × 20-mm monocystic mass (arrows) which was located in the layers from a the submucosa to b the extracecum. Scattered hyperechoic spots were observed in the cystic mass. Appendectomy was performed.
Figure 3 Incision of the cystic mass revealed that the lumen was filled with a gelatinous material. The histological diagnosis was benign appendiceal mucocele.