Sister Mary Joseph's nodule: Three case reports

BACKGROUND: An umbilical metastatic lesion is called 'Sister Mary Joseph's nodule'. It is an uncommon clinical or radiographic finding, and it is rare as the first sign of a malignant disease. CASE PRESENTATION: We report three cases of Sister Mary Joseph's nodule. In the three c...

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Autores principales: Larentzakis, Andreas, Theodorou, Dimitrios, Fili, Klio, Manataki, Anna, Bizimi, Vasiliki, Tibishrani, Michael, Katsaragakis, Stylianos
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/PMC2561010/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18816407
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-182
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Sumario:BACKGROUND: An umbilical metastatic lesion is called 'Sister Mary Joseph's nodule'. It is an uncommon clinical or radiographic finding, and it is rare as the first sign of a malignant disease. CASE PRESENTATION: We report three cases of Sister Mary Joseph's nodule. In the three cases presented, the primary tumor was an adenocarcinona of the sigmoid colon, a carcinoma of the bladder, and an adenocarcinoma of the gallbladder, respectively. CONCLUSION: The differential diagnosis of an umbilical lesion should always include metastatic disease apart from benign lesions and primary neoplasms.

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