An Unusual Presentation of Rectal Carcinoma in a Child

Colorectal carcinoma is a well-known malignancy in adults. However, it is rare in children. Besides, it also has different behaviour in paediatric age-group and usually presents with non-specific symptoms like abdominal pain, weight loss, and anaemia. This usually leads to delay in diagnosis. Adenoc...

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Autores principales: Tiwari, Charu, Zadpe, Ashish, Rathi, Pravin, Shah, Hemanshi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5788954/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29383308
http://dx.doi.org/10.5223/pghn.2018.21.1.72
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author Tiwari, Charu
Zadpe, Ashish
Rathi, Pravin
Shah, Hemanshi
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description Colorectal carcinoma is a well-known malignancy in adults. However, it is rare in children. Besides, it also has different behaviour in paediatric age-group and usually presents with non-specific symptoms like abdominal pain, weight loss, and anaemia. This usually leads to delay in diagnosis. Adenocarcinoma in children has unfavourable tumour histology (mucinous subtype) and advanced disease stage at presentation which lead to poorer prognosis in children. Family history, genetic typing and sibling screening are essential components of management as this malignancy is frequently seen associated with hereditary syndromes. We describe a case of unusual presentation of rectal carcinoma in a 12-year-old girl.
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spelling pubmed-57889542018-01-30 An Unusual Presentation of Rectal Carcinoma in a Child Tiwari, Charu Zadpe, Ashish Rathi, Pravin Shah, Hemanshi Pediatr Gastroenterol Hepatol Nutr Case Report Colorectal carcinoma is a well-known malignancy in adults. However, it is rare in children. Besides, it also has different behaviour in paediatric age-group and usually presents with non-specific symptoms like abdominal pain, weight loss, and anaemia. This usually leads to delay in diagnosis. Adenocarcinoma in children has unfavourable tumour histology (mucinous subtype) and advanced disease stage at presentation which lead to poorer prognosis in children. Family history, genetic typing and sibling screening are essential components of management as this malignancy is frequently seen associated with hereditary syndromes. We describe a case of unusual presentation of rectal carcinoma in a 12-year-old girl. The Korean Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition 2018-01 2018-01-12 /pmc/articles/PMC5788954/ /pubmed/29383308 http://dx.doi.org/10.5223/pghn.2018.21.1.72 Text en Copyright © 2018 by The Korean Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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