Clinically Occult Rectal Carcinoma Identified in a Case of Streptococcus bovis Endocarditis on Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography: A Case Report and Review of Literature

Numerous studies over past four decades have implicated a strong association of Streptoccus bovis infection with colorectal carcinomas. Strong is this association that a screening colonoscopy for identifying malignancy is considered mandatory in patients whose blood/fecal cultures show growth of thi...

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Autores principales: Chandra, Piyush, Nath, Satish, Kumar, Senthil
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5672760/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29142356
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_71_17
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description Numerous studies over past four decades have implicated a strong association of Streptoccus bovis infection with colorectal carcinomas. Strong is this association that a screening colonoscopy for identifying malignancy is considered mandatory in patients whose blood/fecal cultures show growth of this particular pathogen. Here, we report an interesting case of a 61-year-old female patient who presented with pyrexia of unknown origin for 3 weeks. Positron emission tomography/computed tomography, in addition to helping diagnose mitral valve endocarditis, also identified a clinically occult T2N0 rectal carcinoma.
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spelling pubmed-56727602017-11-15 Clinically Occult Rectal Carcinoma Identified in a Case of Streptococcus bovis Endocarditis on Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography: A Case Report and Review of Literature Chandra, Piyush Nath, Satish Kumar, Senthil Indian J Nucl Med Case Report Numerous studies over past four decades have implicated a strong association of Streptoccus bovis infection with colorectal carcinomas. Strong is this association that a screening colonoscopy for identifying malignancy is considered mandatory in patients whose blood/fecal cultures show growth of this particular pathogen. Here, we report an interesting case of a 61-year-old female patient who presented with pyrexia of unknown origin for 3 weeks. Positron emission tomography/computed tomography, in addition to helping diagnose mitral valve endocarditis, also identified a clinically occult T2N0 rectal carcinoma. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5672760/ /pubmed/29142356 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_71_17 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Clinically Occult Rectal Carcinoma Identified in a Case of Streptococcus bovis Endocarditis on Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography: A Case Report and Review of Literature
title Clinically Occult Rectal Carcinoma Identified in a Case of Streptococcus bovis Endocarditis on Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography: A Case Report and Review of Literature
title_full Clinically Occult Rectal Carcinoma Identified in a Case of Streptococcus bovis Endocarditis on Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography: A Case Report and Review of Literature
title_fullStr Clinically Occult Rectal Carcinoma Identified in a Case of Streptococcus bovis Endocarditis on Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography: A Case Report and Review of Literature
title_full_unstemmed Clinically Occult Rectal Carcinoma Identified in a Case of Streptococcus bovis Endocarditis on Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography: A Case Report and Review of Literature
title_short Clinically Occult Rectal Carcinoma Identified in a Case of Streptococcus bovis Endocarditis on Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography: A Case Report and Review of Literature
title_sort clinically occult rectal carcinoma identified in a case of streptococcus bovis endocarditis on fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography: a case report and review of literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5672760/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29142356
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_71_17
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