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Intussusception with incarceration of a cystadenoma of the appendix: Case report and review of the complications of appendiceal adenomas

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Diseases of the Colon & Rectum

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Fifty benign epithelial neoplasms were encountered during the examination of more than 30,000 appendectomy specimens in the Laboratory of Surgical Pathology, Columbia University. In 44 cases, the neoplasms were papillary cystadenomas; in 11 of these cases, there were complications, all thought to have been caused by abnormal accumulations of mucus. We have reported a unique case of an incarcerated intussusception, and attempted to explain the pathogenesis of this unusual complication. We have also summarized the existing medical literature on the subject of intussusception of adenomatous lesions of the appendix.

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  1. Department of Surgical Pathology, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, 630 West 168th Street, 10032, New York, New York

    Susanne Holck M.D. (Former Staff Associate, Surgical Pathology) &  Marianne Wolff M.D. (Associate Professor of Clinical Surgical Pathology)

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Supported in part by a grant from the N.C.I., #CA-18180-03.

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Holck, S., Wolff, M. Intussusception with incarceration of a cystadenoma of the appendix: Case report and review of the complications of appendiceal adenomas. Dis Colon Rectum 22, 133–138 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02586780

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