Metastatic rectal adenocarcinoma within haemorrhoids: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Metastatic tumour involvement of the anal canal is rare. Routine pathological evaluation of haemorrhoidectomy specimens has been suggested to be unhelpful and expensive. Selective rather than routine pathological evaluation of haemorrhoidectomy specimens has been recommended. CASE PRES...

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Autores principales: Gujral, Dorothy M, Bhattacharyya, Sanjeev, Hargreaves, Peter, Middleton, Gary W
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2386132/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18442399
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-2-128
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author Gujral, Dorothy M
Bhattacharyya, Sanjeev
Hargreaves, Peter
Middleton, Gary W
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Bhattacharyya, Sanjeev
Hargreaves, Peter
Middleton, Gary W
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description INTRODUCTION: Metastatic tumour involvement of the anal canal is rare. Routine pathological evaluation of haemorrhoidectomy specimens has been suggested to be unhelpful and expensive. Selective rather than routine pathological evaluation of haemorrhoidectomy specimens has been recommended. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of a 69-year-old woman with metastatic colorectal carcinoma who presented with metastatic carcinoma within thrombosed haemorrhoids. CONCLUSION: We suggest that in patients with colorectal cancer, careful examination of haemorrhoids on colonoscopy as well as histological examination of suspected haemorrhoidal tissue after surgical resection be performed to evaluate for metastasis.
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spelling pubmed-23861322008-05-15 Metastatic rectal adenocarcinoma within haemorrhoids: a case report Gujral, Dorothy M Bhattacharyya, Sanjeev Hargreaves, Peter Middleton, Gary W J Med Case Reports Case Report INTRODUCTION: Metastatic tumour involvement of the anal canal is rare. Routine pathological evaluation of haemorrhoidectomy specimens has been suggested to be unhelpful and expensive. Selective rather than routine pathological evaluation of haemorrhoidectomy specimens has been recommended. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of a 69-year-old woman with metastatic colorectal carcinoma who presented with metastatic carcinoma within thrombosed haemorrhoids. CONCLUSION: We suggest that in patients with colorectal cancer, careful examination of haemorrhoids on colonoscopy as well as histological examination of suspected haemorrhoidal tissue after surgical resection be performed to evaluate for metastasis. BioMed Central 2008-04-28 /pmc/articles/PMC2386132/ /pubmed/18442399 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-2-128 Text en Copyright © 2008 Gujral 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.
spellingShingle Case Report
Gujral, Dorothy M
Bhattacharyya, Sanjeev
Hargreaves, Peter
Middleton, Gary W
Metastatic rectal adenocarcinoma within haemorrhoids: a case report
title Metastatic rectal adenocarcinoma within haemorrhoids: a case report
title_full Metastatic rectal adenocarcinoma within haemorrhoids: a case report
title_fullStr Metastatic rectal adenocarcinoma within haemorrhoids: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Metastatic rectal adenocarcinoma within haemorrhoids: a case report
title_short Metastatic rectal adenocarcinoma within haemorrhoids: a case report
title_sort metastatic rectal adenocarcinoma within haemorrhoids: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2386132/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18442399
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-2-128
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