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Fallopian Tube Tumor Mimicking Primary Gastrointestinal Malignancy

A 67-year-old female patient positive for a mismatch repair gene mutation and history of serous carcinoma of the fallopian tube presented with a lower gastrointestinal bleed. Clinical workup was suggestive of a primary gastrointestinal malignancy. Pathological review after right hemicolectomy reveal...

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Autores principales: Gupta, Anupam K, Vazquez, Oscar A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7494413/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32953309
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9795
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description A 67-year-old female patient positive for a mismatch repair gene mutation and history of serous carcinoma of the fallopian tube presented with a lower gastrointestinal bleed. Clinical workup was suggestive of a primary gastrointestinal malignancy. Pathological review after right hemicolectomy revealed the primary tumor was a fallopian tube carcinoma. Over the next few years, she presented with upper and lower gastrointestinal bleeds from a recurrent metastatic disease, which was from the primary fallopian tube cancer. Although serous carcinoma of the fallopian tube is not an uncommon diagnosis, it is unusual for it to present with symptoms of recurrent gastrointestinal bleed mimicking a primary gastrointestinal malignancy.
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spelling pubmed-74944132020-09-18 Fallopian Tube Tumor Mimicking Primary Gastrointestinal Malignancy Gupta, Anupam K Vazquez, Oscar A Cureus Obstetrics/Gynecology A 67-year-old female patient positive for a mismatch repair gene mutation and history of serous carcinoma of the fallopian tube presented with a lower gastrointestinal bleed. Clinical workup was suggestive of a primary gastrointestinal malignancy. Pathological review after right hemicolectomy revealed the primary tumor was a fallopian tube carcinoma. Over the next few years, she presented with upper and lower gastrointestinal bleeds from a recurrent metastatic disease, which was from the primary fallopian tube cancer. Although serous carcinoma of the fallopian tube is not an uncommon diagnosis, it is unusual for it to present with symptoms of recurrent gastrointestinal bleed mimicking a primary gastrointestinal malignancy. Cureus 2020-08-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7494413/ /pubmed/32953309 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9795 Text en Copyright © 2020, Gupta et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Gupta, Anupam K
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Fallopian Tube Tumor Mimicking Primary Gastrointestinal Malignancy
title Fallopian Tube Tumor Mimicking Primary Gastrointestinal Malignancy
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title_fullStr Fallopian Tube Tumor Mimicking Primary Gastrointestinal Malignancy
title_full_unstemmed Fallopian Tube Tumor Mimicking Primary Gastrointestinal Malignancy
title_short Fallopian Tube Tumor Mimicking Primary Gastrointestinal Malignancy
title_sort fallopian tube tumor mimicking primary gastrointestinal malignancy
topic Obstetrics/Gynecology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7494413/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32953309
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