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Urachal adenocarcinoma surgical management – Emphasis on enbloc umbilectomy and urachal remnant excision with negative margins

Urachal adenocarcinoma is a rare malignant epithelial cancer. It usually presents in advanced stages. We present a 35-year-old female with urachal adenocarcinoma presented with an anterior abdominal wall swelling and ulcer managed surgically with wide excision of anterior abdominal wall along with i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Althaf, Syed, Karthik, S.D.S., H, Usha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6796709/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31641616
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2019.101039
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Sumario:Urachal adenocarcinoma is a rare malignant epithelial cancer. It usually presents in advanced stages. We present a 35-year-old female with urachal adenocarcinoma presented with an anterior abdominal wall swelling and ulcer managed surgically with wide excision of anterior abdominal wall along with intra-abdominal tumour mass with umbilectomy and contiguous urachal remnant excision with abdominal wall reconstruction with mesh repair who was doing well at one year follow up. We also present a brief review regarding pathologic criteria, evolution of various staging systems and surgical aspects of urachal adenocarcinoma.