Concomitant Tuberculosis and Carcinoma Colon: Coincidence or Causal Nexus?

Two rare cases of adenocarcinoma of the caecum and ascending colon concomitant with tuberculosis at the same site are reported. The plausibility of an aetiological relationship between the two pathological conditions has been discussed along with a review of the relevant literature. Tuberculosis com...

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Autores principales: Chakravartty, Saurav, Chattopadhyay, Gautam, Ray, Dipankar, Choudhury, Chandan Roy, Mandal, Subhayan
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2995101/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20871197
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1319-3767.70619
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author Chakravartty, Saurav
Chattopadhyay, Gautam
Ray, Dipankar
Choudhury, Chandan Roy
Mandal, Subhayan
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description Two rare cases of adenocarcinoma of the caecum and ascending colon concomitant with tuberculosis at the same site are reported. The plausibility of an aetiological relationship between the two pathological conditions has been discussed along with a review of the relevant literature. Tuberculosis complicating malignant disease is a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge; and the likelihood of the two occurring together should be kept in mind especially in tuberculosis endemic areas and in patients with equivocal symptoms.
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spelling pubmed-29951012010-12-14 Concomitant Tuberculosis and Carcinoma Colon: Coincidence or Causal Nexus? Chakravartty, Saurav Chattopadhyay, Gautam Ray, Dipankar Choudhury, Chandan Roy Mandal, Subhayan Saudi J Gastroenterol Case Report Two rare cases of adenocarcinoma of the caecum and ascending colon concomitant with tuberculosis at the same site are reported. The plausibility of an aetiological relationship between the two pathological conditions has been discussed along with a review of the relevant literature. Tuberculosis complicating malignant disease is a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge; and the likelihood of the two occurring together should be kept in mind especially in tuberculosis endemic areas and in patients with equivocal symptoms. Medknow Publications 2010-10 /pmc/articles/PMC2995101/ /pubmed/20871197 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1319-3767.70619 Text en © Saudi Journal of Gastroenterology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of 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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Chakravartty, Saurav
Chattopadhyay, Gautam
Ray, Dipankar
Choudhury, Chandan Roy
Mandal, Subhayan
Concomitant Tuberculosis and Carcinoma Colon: Coincidence or Causal Nexus?
title Concomitant Tuberculosis and Carcinoma Colon: Coincidence or Causal Nexus?
title_full Concomitant Tuberculosis and Carcinoma Colon: Coincidence or Causal Nexus?
title_fullStr Concomitant Tuberculosis and Carcinoma Colon: Coincidence or Causal Nexus?
title_full_unstemmed Concomitant Tuberculosis and Carcinoma Colon: Coincidence or Causal Nexus?
title_short Concomitant Tuberculosis and Carcinoma Colon: Coincidence or Causal Nexus?
title_sort concomitant tuberculosis and carcinoma colon: coincidence or causal nexus?
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2995101/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20871197
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1319-3767.70619
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