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Vertebral Metastasis as the Initial Manifestation of Colon Cancer

Oncology guidelines currently recommend against performing colonoscopies in the workup of adenocarcinoma of unknown primary unless colonic malignancy is otherwise suggested by clinical signs or symptoms. We present 2 cases of metastatic colonic adenocarcinoma that presented only with neurologic symp...

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Autores principales: Jain, Tushina, Williams, Renee, Liechty, Benjamin, Ann Chen, Lea
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American College of Gastroenterology 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5062671/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27807574
http://dx.doi.org/10.14309/crj.2016.95
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author Jain, Tushina
Williams, Renee
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description Oncology guidelines currently recommend against performing colonoscopies in the workup of adenocarcinoma of unknown primary unless colonic malignancy is otherwise suggested by clinical signs or symptoms. We present 2 cases of metastatic colonic adenocarcinoma that presented only with neurologic symptoms from vertebral metastasis. Although bony metastases are a rare presentation of colon cancer and colonoscopy is not warranted in the initial workup of adenocarcinoma of unknown primary, we describe these cases as a reminder that bony metastases do not rule out a colon cancer diagnosis.
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spelling pubmed-50626712016-11-02 Vertebral Metastasis as the Initial Manifestation of Colon Cancer Jain, Tushina Williams, Renee Liechty, Benjamin Ann Chen, Lea ACG Case Rep J Case Report Oncology guidelines currently recommend against performing colonoscopies in the workup of adenocarcinoma of unknown primary unless colonic malignancy is otherwise suggested by clinical signs or symptoms. We present 2 cases of metastatic colonic adenocarcinoma that presented only with neurologic symptoms from vertebral metastasis. Although bony metastases are a rare presentation of colon cancer and colonoscopy is not warranted in the initial workup of adenocarcinoma of unknown primary, we describe these cases as a reminder that bony metastases do not rule out a colon cancer diagnosis. American College of Gastroenterology 2016-09-14 /pmc/articles/PMC5062671/ /pubmed/27807574 http://dx.doi.org/10.14309/crj.2016.95 Text en Copyright © Jain 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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Jain, Tushina
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Vertebral Metastasis as the Initial Manifestation of Colon Cancer
title Vertebral Metastasis as the Initial Manifestation of Colon Cancer
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title_fullStr Vertebral Metastasis as the Initial Manifestation of Colon Cancer
title_full_unstemmed Vertebral Metastasis as the Initial Manifestation of Colon Cancer
title_short Vertebral Metastasis as the Initial Manifestation of Colon Cancer
title_sort vertebral metastasis as the initial manifestation of colon cancer
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5062671/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27807574
http://dx.doi.org/10.14309/crj.2016.95
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