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Atypical Presentation of a Urachal Carcinoma as an Enterocutaneous Fistula

Urachal carcinoma is a rare and aggressive tumor, involving the urachus and the bladder. Symptoms of urachal carcinoma usually appear at later stages of the disease; therefore, these tumors are diagnosed in advanced stages, providing limited options for curative treatment. We report the clinical cas...

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Autores principales: Martins, Ana Rita, Frazão, Joana, Nogueira, Sara, Godinho, António
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9056061/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35505719
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.23697
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author Martins, Ana Rita
Frazão, Joana
Nogueira, Sara
Godinho, António
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description Urachal carcinoma is a rare and aggressive tumor, involving the urachus and the bladder. Symptoms of urachal carcinoma usually appear at later stages of the disease; therefore, these tumors are diagnosed in advanced stages, providing limited options for curative treatment. We report the clinical case of a 60-year-old man with a urachal carcinoma which presented as a mass of the abdominal wall invading the transverse colon, creating an enterocutaneous fistula. The patient underwent an en-bloc resection of the mass, segmentary resection of the transverse colon, and partial cystectomy.
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spelling pubmed-90560612022-05-02 Atypical Presentation of a Urachal Carcinoma as an Enterocutaneous Fistula Martins, Ana Rita Frazão, Joana Nogueira, Sara Godinho, António Cureus Urology Urachal carcinoma is a rare and aggressive tumor, involving the urachus and the bladder. Symptoms of urachal carcinoma usually appear at later stages of the disease; therefore, these tumors are diagnosed in advanced stages, providing limited options for curative treatment. We report the clinical case of a 60-year-old man with a urachal carcinoma which presented as a mass of the abdominal wall invading the transverse colon, creating an enterocutaneous fistula. The patient underwent an en-bloc resection of the mass, segmentary resection of the transverse colon, and partial cystectomy. Cureus 2022-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC9056061/ /pubmed/35505719 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.23697 Text en Copyright © 2022, Martins et al. https://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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Martins, Ana Rita
Frazão, Joana
Nogueira, Sara
Godinho, António
Atypical Presentation of a Urachal Carcinoma as an Enterocutaneous Fistula
title Atypical Presentation of a Urachal Carcinoma as an Enterocutaneous Fistula
title_full Atypical Presentation of a Urachal Carcinoma as an Enterocutaneous Fistula
title_fullStr Atypical Presentation of a Urachal Carcinoma as an Enterocutaneous Fistula
title_full_unstemmed Atypical Presentation of a Urachal Carcinoma as an Enterocutaneous Fistula
title_short Atypical Presentation of a Urachal Carcinoma as an Enterocutaneous Fistula
title_sort atypical presentation of a urachal carcinoma as an enterocutaneous fistula
topic Urology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9056061/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35505719
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.23697
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