Lipomatosis of appendix in a teenager

Inthujan Shanmugarajah; Bendik H Sundrehagen; Eivind A Warberg; Airazat M Kazaryan

doi:10.1002/ccr3.4595

Lipomatosis of appendix in a teenager

Clin Case Rep. 2021 Jul 23;9(7):e04595. doi: 10.1002/ccr3.4595. eCollection 2021 Jul.

Authors

Inthujan Shanmugarajah¹, Bendik H Sundrehagen², Eivind A Warberg³, Airazat M Kazaryan^{3

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Plastic Surgery Østfold Hospital Trust Grålum Norway.
² Department of Pathology Østfold Hospital Trust Grålum Norway.
³ Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery Østfold Hospital Trust Grålum Norway.
⁴ Intervention Centre Oslo University Hospital - Rikshospitalet Oslo Norway.
⁵ Institute for Clinical Medicine, Medical Faculty University of Oslo Oslo Norway.
⁶ Department of Faculty Surgery No 2 I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University Moscow Russia.
⁷ Department of Surgery No 1 Yerevan State Medical University After M.Heratsi Yerevan Armenia.

Abstract

Case of rare diagnosis of lipomatosis of appendix was established based on histologic report of appendicular specimen after laparoscopic appendectomy for suspected appendicitis in 16-year-old boy. Application of imaging modality may avoid unnecessary appendectomy.

Keywords: diagnostic imaging; diagnostic mimicry; lipomatosis of appendix; unnecessary appendectomy.

Publication types

Case Reports