Mixed Tumor of the Appendix: A Rare Tumor Association

Read full paper at:
http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=50823#.VE2_qFfHRK0

Author(s)  

Pierlesky Elion Ossibi, Mehdi Benkoukous, Abdoul Aliou Zabeirou Oudou, KarimIbn Majdoub, Imane Toughrai, Said AitLaalim, Khalid Mazaz

Affiliation(s)

Visceral Surgery Department, Hassan II University Hospital, Fez, Morocco.

ABSTRACT

Malignant tumors of the appendix are rare. They are present in 0.1% to 0.5% of appendectomy specimens: confirmed upon histological analysis. Mixed tumors in the appendix are exceptional. We report a mixed mucinous cystadenoma with a moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma of the appendix in a 64-year-old patient presented to the emergency room with bowel obstruction syndrome.

KEYWORDS

Tumor, Appendicitis, Mixed

Cite this paper

Ossibi, P. , Benkoukous, M. , Oudou, A. , Majdoub, K. , Toughrai, I. , AitLaalim, S. and Mazaz, K. (2014) Mixed Tumor of the Appendix: A Rare Tumor Association. Surgical Science, 5, 483-486. doi: 10.4236/ss.2014.510074. 

 

References

[1]	Connor, S.J., Hanna, G.B. and Frizelle, F.A. (1998) Appendiceal Tumors: Retrospective Clinicopathologic Analysis of Appendiceal Tumors from 7,970 Appendectomies. Diseases of the Colon & Rectum, 41, 75-80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02236899
[2]	Parkes, S.E., Muir, K.R., Alsheyyab, M., Cameron, A.H., Pincott, J.R., Raafat, F., et al. (1993) Carcinoid Tumours of the Appendix in Children 1957-1986: Incidence, Treatment and Outcome. British Journal of Surgery, 80, 502-504. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bjs.1800800433
[3]	Hamilton, S.R. and Aaltonen, L.A. (2000) Pathology and Genetics of Tumours of the Digestive System. World Health Organization Classification of Tumours. International Agency for Research on Cancer Press.
[4]	Kanthan, R., Saxena, A. and Kanthan, S.C. (2001) Goblet Cell Carcinoids of the Appendix: Immunophenotype and Ultrastructural Study. Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, 125, 386-390.
[5]	Burke, A.P., Sobin, L.H., Federspiel, B.H., Shekitka, K.M. and Helwig, E.B. (1990) Goblet Cell Carcinoids and Related Tumors of the Vermiform Appendix. American Journal of Clinical Pathology, 94, 27-35.
[6]	Anderson, N.H., Somerville, J.E., Johnston, C.F., Hayes, D.M., Buchanan, K.D. and Sloan, J.M. (1991) Appendiceal Goblet Cell Carcinoids: A Clinicopathological and Immunohistochemical Study. Histopathology, 18, 61-65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2559.1991.tb00815.x
[7]	Nitecki, S.S., Wolff, B.G., Schlinkert, R. and Sarr, M.G. (1994) The Natural History of Surgically Treated Primary Adenocarcinoma of the Appendix. Annals of Surgery, 219, 51-57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00000658-199401000-00009         eww141027lx