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
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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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author Samet, Jonathan D.
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description 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 characterizing the obstructive sigmoid mass. A biopsy of the mass revealed sigmoid endometriosis.
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spelling pubmed-27744832009-11-09 Colonic Endometriosis Mimicking Colon Cancer on a Virtual Colonoscopy Study: A Potential Pitfall in Diagnosis Samet, Jonathan D. Horton, Karen M. Fishman, Elliot K. Hruban, Ralph H. Case Rep Med Case Report 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 characterizing the obstructive sigmoid mass. A biopsy of the mass revealed sigmoid endometriosis. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2009 2009-11-08 /pmc/articles/PMC2774483/ /pubmed/19902007 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/379578 Text en Copyright © 2009 Jonathan D. Samet et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Colonic Endometriosis Mimicking Colon Cancer on a Virtual Colonoscopy Study: A Potential Pitfall in Diagnosis
title Colonic Endometriosis Mimicking Colon Cancer on a Virtual Colonoscopy Study: A Potential Pitfall in Diagnosis
title_full Colonic Endometriosis Mimicking Colon Cancer on a Virtual Colonoscopy Study: A Potential Pitfall in Diagnosis
title_fullStr Colonic Endometriosis Mimicking Colon Cancer on a Virtual Colonoscopy Study: A Potential Pitfall in Diagnosis
title_full_unstemmed Colonic Endometriosis Mimicking Colon Cancer on a Virtual Colonoscopy Study: A Potential Pitfall in Diagnosis
title_short Colonic Endometriosis Mimicking Colon Cancer on a Virtual Colonoscopy Study: A Potential Pitfall in Diagnosis
title_sort colonic endometriosis mimicking colon cancer on a virtual colonoscopy study: a potential pitfall in diagnosis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2774483/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/379578
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