Early Diagnosis of a Small Adenocarcinoma in a Rectovaginal Fistula Related to Crohn's Disease

While adenocarcinomas have occasionally been reported in perianal fistulae, malignant changes occurring in rectovaginal fistulae are rare, with only a handful of reported cases. We report a 73-year-old woman with Crohn's disease who was diagnosed at an early stage with adenocarcinoma in a recto...

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Autores principales: Narasimhulu, Deepa M., Serur, Anna, Khulpateea, Neekianund
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American College of Gastroenterology 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4508951/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26203449
http://dx.doi.org/10.14309/crj.2015.69
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author Narasimhulu, Deepa M.
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description While adenocarcinomas have occasionally been reported in perianal fistulae, malignant changes occurring in rectovaginal fistulae are rare, with only a handful of reported cases. We report a 73-year-old woman with Crohn's disease who was diagnosed at an early stage with adenocarcinoma in a rectovaginal fistula. This rare disease poses many diagnostic challenges.
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spelling pubmed-45089512015-07-22 Early Diagnosis of a Small Adenocarcinoma in a Rectovaginal Fistula Related to Crohn's Disease Narasimhulu, Deepa M. Serur, Anna Khulpateea, Neekianund ACG Case Rep J Case Report While adenocarcinomas have occasionally been reported in perianal fistulae, malignant changes occurring in rectovaginal fistulae are rare, with only a handful of reported cases. We report a 73-year-old woman with Crohn's disease who was diagnosed at an early stage with adenocarcinoma in a rectovaginal fistula. This rare disease poses many diagnostic challenges. American College of Gastroenterology 2015-07-09 /pmc/articles/PMC4508951/ /pubmed/26203449 http://dx.doi.org/10.14309/crj.2015.69 Text en Copyright © Narasimhulu et al. This is an open-access article. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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