Aragón-Quintana C, Fierro-Murga R, Rodríguez-Zamacona A

Language: Spanish
References: 7
Page: 161-163
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ABSTRACT

The appendiceal mucinous cystadenoma is a rare malignancy accounting for 8-10% of all tumors of the appendix. Most of these tumors are diagnosed incidentally or by clinical data that simulate the inflammatory adnexal or appendix. The following is the case of a patient in the 6th decade of life with clinical and paraclinical gynecological pathology is diagnosed mucinous cystadenoma of the appendix.

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