Ameboma of Colon Simulating Colonic Adenocarcinoma

Amebiasis is common in tropical and developing countries with variable symptoms. Ameboma of the colon occurs rarely due to the annular growth of granulation tissue and can present as mass lesion simulating colonic carcinoma in elderly individuals. Due to diagnostic dilemma or in case of complication...

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Autores principales: Kataria, Hanish, Seth, Abhinav, Attri, Ashok Kumar, Singh Punia, Raj Pal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5846219/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29552535
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijabmr.IJABMR_285_17
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author Kataria, Hanish
Seth, Abhinav
Attri, Ashok Kumar
Singh Punia, Raj Pal
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description Amebiasis is common in tropical and developing countries with variable symptoms. Ameboma of the colon occurs rarely due to the annular growth of granulation tissue and can present as mass lesion simulating colonic carcinoma in elderly individuals. Due to diagnostic dilemma or in case of complications, for example, acute intestinal obstruction, perforation, or bleeding per rectum, the patient requires urgent surgical exploration and final diagnosis is made on histopathological examination.
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spelling pubmed-58462192018-03-16 Ameboma of Colon Simulating Colonic Adenocarcinoma Kataria, Hanish Seth, Abhinav Attri, Ashok Kumar Singh Punia, Raj Pal Int J Appl Basic Med Res Case Report Amebiasis is common in tropical and developing countries with variable symptoms. Ameboma of the colon occurs rarely due to the annular growth of granulation tissue and can present as mass lesion simulating colonic carcinoma in elderly individuals. Due to diagnostic dilemma or in case of complications, for example, acute intestinal obstruction, perforation, or bleeding per rectum, the patient requires urgent surgical exploration and final diagnosis is made on histopathological examination. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC5846219/ /pubmed/29552535 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijabmr.IJABMR_285_17 Text en Copyright: © 2018 International Journal of Applied and Basic Medical Research 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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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29552535
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