Acute typhlitis caused by a caecal faecolith

Submucosal Fecalith Presenting as a Submucosal Cecal Mass

“…There are previous reports of cecal fecaliths (many of them causing acute appendicitis or even acute typhlitis) and cases of fecaliths simulating a submucosal colonic lesion that were eventually diagnosed as fecaliths inside the lumen of the appendix. 1,3–5 Ruan et al reported a submucosal fecalith, not related to the cecal appendix, which lacked a mucosal ulcer in the wall of the cecum. 6…”