Background: Mucocele is a clinical term referring to a swelling caused by saliva accumulation at the site of an obstructed or traumatized minor salivary gland duct. This article reports the efficiency of intralesional corticosteroid injection in the treatment of a recurrent oral mucocele in a pediatric patient. Case presentation: A 7-year-old girl presented with the chief complaint of a painle...

The authors report the case of a 60-year-old male patient. In November 2001 he developed intestinal symptoms of bloody diarrhea and abdominal pain. Colononoscopy and biopsy established the diagnosis of ulcerative colitis (proctosigmoiditis). The disease activity was moderate at the beginning. No significant laboratory alterations were found (including CEA, CA19-9), and mesalazine was started or...

The Mucocele or Mucus Extravasation phenomenon or mucus escape reaction is a common benign lesion of the oral cavity which most commonly results from the rupture of a salivary gland ducts or an alternation of minor salivary glands due to accumulation of mucus into the surrounding soft tissues. This may results from the local trauma to the salivary ducts that can be produced by lip or cheek bitt...

PURPOSE To evaluate the prophylactic use of antibiotics in external dacryocystorhinostomy for the prevention of postoperative complications. METHODS This study included 697 patients diagnosed with distal nasolacrimal duct obstruction and who were operated on by the same surgeon. Direct culture of the lacrimal sac content was carried out. Data were collected regarding clinical signs and sympto...

Los mucoceles de los senos paranasales son tumoraciones expansivas que muestran diferentes presentaciones y localizaciones. Son tumores benignos crecimiento lento, pero debido a la expansión presentan causan erosión desplazamiento las estructuras adyacentes, edad presentación varía 40 60 años, sin predilección por el sexo. Aproximadamente en 60-65% casos afectan frontales. La clínica es variabl...

Appendiceal mucoceles are rare cystic lesions with an incidence of 0.3-0.7% of all appendectomies. They are divided into four subgroups according to their histology. Even though the symptoms may vary - depending on the level of complication - from right lower quadrant pain, signs of intussusception, gastrointestinal bleeding to an acute abdomen with sepsis, most mucoceles are asymptomatic and f...

Appendiceal mucocele is a very rare clinical condition. Associated ascites and an ovarian mass could suggest synchronous ovarian cystadenocarcinoma with pseudomyxoma peritonei. We describe the case of a 36-year-old female with a mucinous cystadenoma of the appendix causing intussusception, diagnosed by CT but not by US scan, since the associated anomalous fixation of the caecum was misleading i...

Mucocele of appendix is a concern for practicing surgeons because of a significant number of cases found incidentally or being misdiagnosed as acute appendicitis preoperatively. This further presents a dilemma with regard to the surgery to be performed, in case it is found incidentally on the operating table because if mucocele is treated incorrectly pseudomyxoma peritonei, which is a malignant...