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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...
Autores principales: | Samet, Jonathan D., Horton, Karen M., Fishman, Elliot K., Hruban, Ralph H. |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Hindawi Publishing Corporation
2009
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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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