Calcified Mucocele of the Appendix, with Rupture
| Autor: | Russel F. Miller, H. W. Ostrulvi |
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| Rok vydání: | 1941 |
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| Zdroj: | Radiology. 36:356-361 |
| ISSN: | 1527-1315 0033-8419 |
| Popis: | PRIOR to Virchow's classic description r of mucocele, in 1863, when he considered it a “colloid degeneration” of the appendix, Rokitansky, in 1842, described it under the term “hydrops of the appendix.” Later, in 1864 and 1888, Cruveilhier and Werth reported the chief complication of the disease as a “gelatinous degeneration of the peritoneum” and as “pseudomyxoma peritonei,” respectively. These free and encysted gelatinous masses in the peritoneum, however, are much more common in the female secondary to rupture of pseudomucinous cysts of the ovary and occur only in the male following rupture of a distended mucocele of the appendix. Frankel, in 1901, reported the first case of pseudomyxoma peritonei, with ruptured appendix, containing the same gelatinous substance. Original clinical observations on mucoceles reported by Maydl and Lennander, in 1892 and 1893, respectively, make no mention of autopsy or operative proofs. Numerous case reports by Stengel, Nash, Porter, Deaver, Simon, and others add little t... |
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