Cecal cancer with appendiceal mucocele

Case contributed by Mohammad Taghi Niknejad
Diagnosis almost certain

Presentation

Abdominal pain.

Patient Data

Age: 60 years
Gender: Male

Increased wall thickness is noted at cecum accompanied by surrounding fat stranding and a few small pericolic lymphadenopathies. The appendix is distended.

Case Discussion

Proximal colon cancer; pathology proven adenocarcinoma with appendiceal mucocele.

Colorectal cancers can be found anywhere from the cecum to the rectum. The cecum and ascending colon are involved in approxmiately 20% of cases. 

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