From Diagnosis to Management; Mucocele of Stump Appendicitis, Extremely Rare Finding in an Uncommon Surgical Disease: Literature Review

Table 1

Review of literature of appendiceal mucocele in stump appendix.

No.	Author	Age	Gender	Presentation	Interval between appendectomy	Open vs. lap	Time of diagnosis
1	Rasch and Strange [8]	54	Male	Right lower abdominal pain	4 years	Open	Post-op
2	Ozgür et al. [6]	75		Abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, and mass on examination	10 years	Not mentioned	Pre-op
3	Cama Jitoko K [21]	27	Female	Chronic abdominal pain in RIF for 12 months	18 years	Open	Post-op
4	El Ajmi et al. [10]	54	Female	3-week history of pain in the right lower quadrant of the abdomen	20 years	Not mentioned	Post-op
5	Kim et al. [1]	78	Male	Palpable mass in the right upper thigh and swelling of the right lower extremity for 2 months	40 years ago	Open	Post-op
6	Sameera and Sohil [11]	51	Male	Complaints of flank pain and hematuria	Not mentioned	Not mentioned	Pre-op
7	Korkolis et al. [3]	49	Female	6-month history of vague right lower quadrant pain radiating through to the back	25 years previously	Not mentioned	Post-op
8	Lien et al. [2]	66	Male	Gradual onset of right lower quadrant (RLQ) pain	30 years	Not mentioned but presumably open	Post-op
9	Lien et al. [2]	45 years	Female	3-day history of RLQ pain associated with low-grade fever (37.8°C) and diarrhea	10 years previously	Not mentioned (but they mentioned surgical scar, it looks open)	No pre-op diagnosis
10	Yeong et al. [12]	54 years	Male	Painless abdominal mass which he first noticed 5 years ago, gradually increasing in size	Appendicectomy for an appendiceal abscess 25 years previously. The perforated appendix was in the prececal position, adherent to the terminal ileum and covered by omentum	Not mentioned but it looks open	Pre-op diagnosis of mesenteric or reduplication cyst was suggested