Unsuspected radiolucent partial denture impaction in the sigmoid colon mimicking malignancy

We report the case of a 79-year-old male who presented with altered bowel habit. Subsequent endoscopy and radiological investigations suggested the diagnosis of a likely sigmoid colon malignancy. Surgery was performed to remove the suspected tumour and post-surgical histology showed only inflammator...

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Autores principales: Tshuma, Makabongwe, Velchuru, Vamsi, Waters, Geoffrey Andrew
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The British Institute of Radiology 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6159238/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30363211
http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20160074
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description We report the case of a 79-year-old male who presented with altered bowel habit. Subsequent endoscopy and radiological investigations suggested the diagnosis of a likely sigmoid colon malignancy. Surgery was performed to remove the suspected tumour and post-surgical histology showed only inflammatory change in an area of underlying sigmoid diverticulosis with an associated impacted dental prosthesis.
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spelling pubmed-61592382018-10-25 Unsuspected radiolucent partial denture impaction in the sigmoid colon mimicking malignancy Tshuma, Makabongwe Velchuru, Vamsi Waters, Geoffrey Andrew BJR Case Rep Case Report We report the case of a 79-year-old male who presented with altered bowel habit. Subsequent endoscopy and radiological investigations suggested the diagnosis of a likely sigmoid colon malignancy. Surgery was performed to remove the suspected tumour and post-surgical histology showed only inflammatory change in an area of underlying sigmoid diverticulosis with an associated impacted dental prosthesis. The British Institute of Radiology 2016-12-19 /pmc/articles/PMC6159238/ /pubmed/30363211 http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20160074 Text en © 2016 The Authors. Published by the British Institute of Radiology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title Unsuspected radiolucent partial denture impaction in the sigmoid colon mimicking malignancy
title_full Unsuspected radiolucent partial denture impaction in the sigmoid colon mimicking malignancy
title_fullStr Unsuspected radiolucent partial denture impaction in the sigmoid colon mimicking malignancy
title_full_unstemmed Unsuspected radiolucent partial denture impaction in the sigmoid colon mimicking malignancy
title_short Unsuspected radiolucent partial denture impaction in the sigmoid colon mimicking malignancy
title_sort unsuspected radiolucent partial denture impaction in the sigmoid colon mimicking malignancy
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6159238/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30363211
http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20160074
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