Based on the patient's pathology results, surgeons conclude that the patient had acute diverticular appendicitis with peri-appendiceal mucocele with no evidence of lymphovascular invasion or signs ...

Whereas surgical resection alone of an intact, mucin-producing neoplasm of the appendix (mucocele) is curative, rupture of an appendiceal mucocele may lead to diffuse peritoneal spread of mucin that ...

In 1996, Sugarbaker strictly defined PMP as a grade 1 mucinous adenocarcinoma arising from an appendiceal adenoma. 16,17 Similar nomenclature was embraced by the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, ...