Sarcomatoid carcinoma of colon: extremely poor prognosis

Colonic sarcomatoid carcinomas are known to be extremely rare tumors, with only 22 cases reported either as sarcomatoid carcinomas or carcinosarcomas in the literature. The known characteristics are rapid growth, a high recurrence rate, and an extremely poor prognosis. Herein we report a case of a p...

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Autores principales: Choi, Yoon Young, Jeen, Yoon Mi, Kim, Yong Jin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Surgical Society 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3205376/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22066078
http://dx.doi.org/10.4174/jkss.2011.80.Suppl1.S26
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description Colonic sarcomatoid carcinomas are known to be extremely rare tumors, with only 22 cases reported either as sarcomatoid carcinomas or carcinosarcomas in the literature. The known characteristics are rapid growth, a high recurrence rate, and an extremely poor prognosis. Herein we report a case of a patient who had a sarcomatoid carcinoma of the sigmoid colon and died only 22 days after surgery due to rapid tumor growth.
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spelling pubmed-32053762011-11-07 Sarcomatoid carcinoma of colon: extremely poor prognosis Choi, Yoon Young Jeen, Yoon Mi Kim, Yong Jin J Korean Surg Soc Case Report Colonic sarcomatoid carcinomas are known to be extremely rare tumors, with only 22 cases reported either as sarcomatoid carcinomas or carcinosarcomas in the literature. The known characteristics are rapid growth, a high recurrence rate, and an extremely poor prognosis. Herein we report a case of a patient who had a sarcomatoid carcinoma of the sigmoid colon and died only 22 days after surgery due to rapid tumor growth. The Korean Surgical Society 2011-06 2011-06-17 /pmc/articles/PMC3205376/ /pubmed/22066078 http://dx.doi.org/10.4174/jkss.2011.80.Suppl1.S26 Text en Copyright © 2011, the Korean Surgical Society http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0 Journal of the Korean Surgical Society is an Open Access Journal. All articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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