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
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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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author Larentzakis, Andreas
Theodorou, Dimitrios
Fili, Klio
Manataki, Anna
Bizimi, Vasiliki
Tibishrani, Michael
Katsaragakis, Stylianos
author_facet Larentzakis, Andreas
Theodorou, Dimitrios
Fili, Klio
Manataki, Anna
Bizimi, Vasiliki
Tibishrani, Michael
Katsaragakis, Stylianos
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description 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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spelling pubmed-25610102008-10-04 Sister Mary Joseph's nodule: Three case reports Larentzakis, Andreas Theodorou, Dimitrios Fili, Klio Manataki, Anna Bizimi, Vasiliki Tibishrani, Michael Katsaragakis, Stylianos Cases J Case Report 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. BioMed Central 2008-09-24 /pmc/articles/PMC2561010/ /pubmed/18816407 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-182 Text en Copyright © 2008 Larentzakis 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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Larentzakis, Andreas
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Manataki, Anna
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Tibishrani, Michael
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title_short Sister Mary Joseph's nodule: Three case reports
title_sort sister mary joseph's nodule: three case reports
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url 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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