Poorly Differentiated Neuroendocrine Tumor of the Rectum Coexistent with Giant Rectal Villous Adenoma Presenting as McKittrick-Wheelock Syndrome

McKittrick-Wheelock Syndrome is a rare disorder, noted for electrolyte and fluid depletion caused by secretory colorectal adenomas and carcinomas. We report here the first reported case of a 55-year-old man with a large rectal villous adenoma coexistent with a poorly differentiated neuroendocrine tu...

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Autores principales: Nakhla, Sammy G., Murakami, Traci T., Sundararajan, Srinath
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4670721/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26682079
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/242760
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author Nakhla, Sammy G.
Murakami, Traci T.
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description McKittrick-Wheelock Syndrome is a rare disorder, noted for electrolyte and fluid depletion caused by secretory colorectal adenomas and carcinomas. We report here the first reported case of a 55-year-old man with a large rectal villous adenoma coexistent with a poorly differentiated neuroendocrine tumor of rectum presenting with McKittrick-Wheelock Syndrome. Palliative chemotherapy resulted in complete resolution of symptoms and improved quality of life.
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spelling pubmed-46707212015-12-17 Poorly Differentiated Neuroendocrine Tumor of the Rectum Coexistent with Giant Rectal Villous Adenoma Presenting as McKittrick-Wheelock Syndrome Nakhla, Sammy G. Murakami, Traci T. Sundararajan, Srinath Case Rep Oncol Med Case Report McKittrick-Wheelock Syndrome is a rare disorder, noted for electrolyte and fluid depletion caused by secretory colorectal adenomas and carcinomas. We report here the first reported case of a 55-year-old man with a large rectal villous adenoma coexistent with a poorly differentiated neuroendocrine tumor of rectum presenting with McKittrick-Wheelock Syndrome. Palliative chemotherapy resulted in complete resolution of symptoms and improved quality of life. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-11-22 /pmc/articles/PMC4670721/ /pubmed/26682079 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/242760 Text en Copyright © 2015 Sammy G. Nakhla 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.
spellingShingle Case Report
Nakhla, Sammy G.
Murakami, Traci T.
Sundararajan, Srinath
Poorly Differentiated Neuroendocrine Tumor of the Rectum Coexistent with Giant Rectal Villous Adenoma Presenting as McKittrick-Wheelock Syndrome
title Poorly Differentiated Neuroendocrine Tumor of the Rectum Coexistent with Giant Rectal Villous Adenoma Presenting as McKittrick-Wheelock Syndrome
title_full Poorly Differentiated Neuroendocrine Tumor of the Rectum Coexistent with Giant Rectal Villous Adenoma Presenting as McKittrick-Wheelock Syndrome
title_fullStr Poorly Differentiated Neuroendocrine Tumor of the Rectum Coexistent with Giant Rectal Villous Adenoma Presenting as McKittrick-Wheelock Syndrome
title_full_unstemmed Poorly Differentiated Neuroendocrine Tumor of the Rectum Coexistent with Giant Rectal Villous Adenoma Presenting as McKittrick-Wheelock Syndrome
title_short Poorly Differentiated Neuroendocrine Tumor of the Rectum Coexistent with Giant Rectal Villous Adenoma Presenting as McKittrick-Wheelock Syndrome
title_sort poorly differentiated neuroendocrine tumor of the rectum coexistent with giant rectal villous adenoma presenting as mckittrick-wheelock syndrome
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4670721/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26682079
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/242760
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