Umbilical metastasis mimicking symptomatic hernia: Report of a case of Sister Mary Joseph Syndrome

INTRODUCTION: An umbilical mass can be the first symptom of an intra-abdominal neoplasia, and this condition is also defined as Sister Mary Joseph Syndrome. CASE PRESENTATION: An eighty-year-old patient presented with a complicated umbilical hernia. CT scan abdomen revealed a pancreatic neoplasm and...

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Autores principales: Cestaro, Giovanni, De Monti, Marco, Alkayyali, Suleyman, Fasolini, Fabrizio, Salmoiraghi, Francesco
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5651551/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29055876
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijscr.2017.10.016
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Sumario:INTRODUCTION: An umbilical mass can be the first symptom of an intra-abdominal neoplasia, and this condition is also defined as Sister Mary Joseph Syndrome. CASE PRESENTATION: An eighty-year-old patient presented with a complicated umbilical hernia. CT scan abdomen revealed a pancreatic neoplasm and an umbilical biopsy confirmed diagnosis of metastasis. Patient started chemotherapy by Oncologists. CONCLUSIONS: In this paper the Authors suggest a histopathological evaluation of umbilical fat in all cases of newly emerging umbilical hernia in the adult population.

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