Correspondence: Florin Savulescu, MD, PhD, e-mail: [email protected] The appendicular mucocele is a rarely encountered pathology in clinical practice, with an occurrence rate of 0.2% of all appendectomies, it usually affects people older than 50 years. We present the case of a patient, 40 years old, with no significant pathological and heredocolaterale history, which was hospitalized in our clini...

Purpose. To report on a patient with compressive optic neuropathy secondary to an Onodi cell mucocele, who fully recovered visual function following surgery. Method. Case report. Results. A 28-year-old male was admitted with a right visual acuity of 20/100 following treatment for an initial diagnosis of optic neuritis. Subsequent examination suggested compressive optic neuropathy, and neuroimag...

Treatment of frontal sinus disease represents one of the most challenging aspects of endoscopic sinus surgery. Frontal sinus mucocele drainage may be an exception to the rule because in many instances, the expansion of the mucocele widens the frontal sinus recess and renders surgical drainage technically undemanding. Recently, there has been an increased interest in in-office procedures in otol...

Appendiceal mucocele is a rare clinical entity, which is however quite often associated with mucinous ovarian tumor. The coexistence of mucinous cystadenoma of the appendix and endometrial adenocarcinoma has not been reported before. A 49-year-old woman presented to our clinic with postmenopausal bleeding and no other symptom. Endometrial biopsy revealed endometrial adenocarcinoma of endometrio...

INTRODUCTION To describe the unusual manifestation of a giant frontal sinus mucocele. CLINICAL PICTURE A 33-year-old female presented with blurring of vision in the left eye, periorbital swelling and a painless forehead mass. There was proptosis, partial ptosis, and an elongated, soft, subcutaneous mass over the left side of the forehead. CT scan showed a mass arising from the frontal sinus w...

and a giant appendiceal mucocele was found with partial intussusception into the cecum ( fig. 2 ). Appendectomy plus partial cecal resection was performed. The final pathologic diagnosis was mucocele caused by chronic appendicitis. Mucocele of the appendix is a rare clinical entity, characterized by distension of the lumen due to accumulation of mucus. The reported prevalence is between 0.2% an...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Frontal sinus entry, orbital entry, or both may occur during pterional craniotomy for microsurgical clipping of aneurysms. We sought to determine the incidence and clinical significance of these findings on postoperative CT scans. METHODS Eighty-two postoperative CT scans of the head obtained from 81 patients (64 women, 17 men; age range, 25-80 years) were retrospective...

This report describes a lesion of the upper lip that was definitively diagnosed by histologic examination as a mucocele or mucus retention phenomenon. The usual location of mucoceles is the lower lip. This case illustrates an uncommon presentation of mucocele with respect to symptoms, location and duration. The features of a variety of oral lesions are discussed and compared, to help clinicians...

Melanoma metastatic to the appendix is extremely rare. Here we describe a case of a 31-year-old female from Bolivia with a remote history of metastatic malignant melanoma first diagnosed as a cutaneous malignant melanoma ten years prior to this presentation. The patient was being followed for a mucocele which on resection was found to be metastatic melanoma. "Mucocele" is a generic diagnosis th...

Background: Superficial mucocele presents as small, clear vesicle on noninflamed mucosa. In this study, we report several vesicles on the bucal mucosa of a woman diagnosed as superficial mucocele.Case Presentation: A 48-year old woman presented with multiple vesicles on her labial mucosa, ventral surface of the tongue, floor of the mouth and palate. A mucosal biopsy was taken from the vesicle. ...