Small cell carcinoma of the appendix

BACKGROUND: An extrapulmonary small cell carcinoma is a rare condition. It has similar histological features to pulmonary small cell carcinoma and is equally aggressive. CASE PRESENTATION: We present the case of a 60-year-old woman who presented with right upper quadrant pain. Computerised tomograph...

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Autores principales: O'Kane, Anna M, O'Donnell, Mark E, Shah, Rajeev, Carey, Declan P, Lee, Jack
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2241597/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18197972
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-6-4
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author O'Kane, Anna M
O'Donnell, Mark E
Shah, Rajeev
Carey, Declan P
Lee, Jack
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O'Donnell, Mark E
Shah, Rajeev
Carey, Declan P
Lee, Jack
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description BACKGROUND: An extrapulmonary small cell carcinoma is a rare condition. It has similar histological features to pulmonary small cell carcinoma and is equally aggressive. CASE PRESENTATION: We present the case of a 60-year-old woman who presented with right upper quadrant pain. Computerised tomography revealed an appendiceal lesion and multiple liver metastases. Exploratory laparotomy and right hemicolectomy was performed with histopathological analysis confirming a primary small cell carcinoma of her appendix. CONCLUSION: This is the first reported case of a pure extrapulmonary carcinoma arising from the appendix.
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spelling pubmed-22415972008-02-13 Small cell carcinoma of the appendix O'Kane, Anna M O'Donnell, Mark E Shah, Rajeev Carey, Declan P Lee, Jack World J Surg Oncol Case Report BACKGROUND: An extrapulmonary small cell carcinoma is a rare condition. It has similar histological features to pulmonary small cell carcinoma and is equally aggressive. CASE PRESENTATION: We present the case of a 60-year-old woman who presented with right upper quadrant pain. Computerised tomography revealed an appendiceal lesion and multiple liver metastases. Exploratory laparotomy and right hemicolectomy was performed with histopathological analysis confirming a primary small cell carcinoma of her appendix. CONCLUSION: This is the first reported case of a pure extrapulmonary carcinoma arising from the appendix. BioMed Central 2008-01-15 /pmc/articles/PMC2241597/ /pubmed/18197972 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-6-4 Text en Copyright © 2008 O'Kane et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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O'Kane, Anna M
O'Donnell, Mark E
Shah, Rajeev
Carey, Declan P
Lee, Jack
Small cell carcinoma of the appendix
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title_full Small cell carcinoma of the appendix
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title_full_unstemmed Small cell carcinoma of the appendix
title_short Small cell carcinoma of the appendix
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2241597/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18197972
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-6-4
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