Splenic Abscess: An Unusual Complication of Colon Cancer

Colon cancer is among the common malignancies. Common cancer-related complications are regional tumor extension, obstruction, and tumor perforation. Abscess formation is among the rare complications. We report a case of a 60-year-old female who presented with shortness of breath and left upper quadr...

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Autores principales: Yelisetti, Rishitha, Khurshid, Madiha, Awad, Areig, Kaji, Anand
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elmer Press 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5593445/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28912912
http://dx.doi.org/10.14740/gr840w
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author Yelisetti, Rishitha
Khurshid, Madiha
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description Colon cancer is among the common malignancies. Common cancer-related complications are regional tumor extension, obstruction, and tumor perforation. Abscess formation is among the rare complications. We report a case of a 60-year-old female who presented with shortness of breath and left upper quadrant pain and was diagnosed with splenic abscess associated with colon cancer. This type of presentation necessitates an early surgical intervention.
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spelling pubmed-55934452017-09-14 Splenic Abscess: An Unusual Complication of Colon Cancer Yelisetti, Rishitha Khurshid, Madiha Awad, Areig Kaji, Anand Gastroenterology Res Case Report Colon cancer is among the common malignancies. Common cancer-related complications are regional tumor extension, obstruction, and tumor perforation. Abscess formation is among the rare complications. We report a case of a 60-year-old female who presented with shortness of breath and left upper quadrant pain and was diagnosed with splenic abscess associated with colon cancer. This type of presentation necessitates an early surgical intervention. Elmer Press 2017-08 2017-08-31 /pmc/articles/PMC5593445/ /pubmed/28912912 http://dx.doi.org/10.14740/gr840w Text en Copyright 2017, Yelisetti et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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