Apple-core lesion of the colon: a case report

INTRODUCTION: The appearance of the apple-core lesion of the colon can be caused by several diseases. CASE PRESENTATION: A male patient was referred to the surgical clinic with melaena and weight loss. Clinical examination and investigations confirmed an apple-core lesion of the colon. He underwent...

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Autores principales: Alzaraa, Ahmed, Krzysztof, Kurzatkowski, Uwechue, Raphael, Tee, Ming, Selvasekar, Chelliah
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Case report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769347/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19918517
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-7275
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author Alzaraa, Ahmed
Krzysztof, Kurzatkowski
Uwechue, Raphael
Tee, Ming
Selvasekar, Chelliah
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description INTRODUCTION: The appearance of the apple-core lesion of the colon can be caused by several diseases. CASE PRESENTATION: A male patient was referred to the surgical clinic with melaena and weight loss. Clinical examination and investigations confirmed an apple-core lesion of the colon. He underwent surgery, but unfortunately, died of a chest infection two weeks after the operation. CONCLUSION: This case shows the use of computed tomography in demonstrating the primary cause of iron deficiency anaemia, and at the same time, staging the disease for loco-regional metastasis.
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spelling pubmed-27693472009-11-16 Apple-core lesion of the colon: a case report Alzaraa, Ahmed Krzysztof, Kurzatkowski Uwechue, Raphael Tee, Ming Selvasekar, Chelliah Cases J Case report INTRODUCTION: The appearance of the apple-core lesion of the colon can be caused by several diseases. CASE PRESENTATION: A male patient was referred to the surgical clinic with melaena and weight loss. Clinical examination and investigations confirmed an apple-core lesion of the colon. He underwent surgery, but unfortunately, died of a chest infection two weeks after the operation. CONCLUSION: This case shows the use of computed tomography in demonstrating the primary cause of iron deficiency anaemia, and at the same time, staging the disease for loco-regional metastasis. Cases Network Ltd 2009-09-14 /pmc/articles/PMC2769347/ /pubmed/19918517 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-7275 Text en © 2009 Alzaraa et al.; licensee Cases Network Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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