✦ LIBER ✦
Crushed chest syndrome with mediastinal emphysema the result of compressed air
✍ Scribed by W. M. Toone
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1949
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 167 KB
- Volume
- 37
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0007-1323
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✦ Synopsis
COMPLICATIONS OF MUCOCELE
In the case reported the wall of the appendix was intact and no leakage of its contents had taken place. Rupture is, however, the commonest complication and results in pseudomyxoma peritonei (Phemister, 1915). This was first described by Frankel in 1901 and has been reproduced experimentally (Grodinsky and Rubnitz, 1941).
Less commonly the appendicular swelling gives rise to an intussusception (Fraser, 1943).
Rarely acute inflammation occurs (Early Latimer, 1940), with exacerbation of abdominal pain and vomiting. The mucocele then contains blood-clot and mucous, with acute inflammatory changes in the wall.