Colonic Endometriosis Mimicking Colon Cancer on a Virtual Colonoscopy Study: A Potential Pitfall in Diagnosis

Colonic endometriosis has been reported in the literature to mimic colon cancer. Patients can present with symptoms almost identical to colon cancer. We present an exemplary case of a woman who was found to have a mass on conventional colonoscopy. Virtual colonoscopy was instrumental in characterizi...

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Autores principales: Samet, Jonathan D., Horton, Karen M., Fishman, Elliot K., Hruban, Ralph H.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2009
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2774483/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19902007
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/379578

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2774483/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19902007
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/379578

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