Fish bone perforation mimicking colon cancer: A case report.
Most patients who ingest fish bones do not develop any complications. The small proportion of patients who do complicate, present with non-specific symptoms. A 64-year-old female patient presented with a 2-month history of abdominal pain. Following clinical evaluation and computed tomography scan of...
| Publicado en: | South African Journal of Radiology Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 1 - 5 |
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| Autores principales: | , , |
| Formato: | case study diagnostic images pictorial Journal Article |
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African Online Scientific Information System PTY LTD
2020
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| Acceso en línea: | Ver este registro en EBSCOhost |
| Sumario: | Most patients who ingest fish bones do not develop any complications. The small proportion of patients who do complicate, present with non-specific symptoms. A 64-year-old female patient presented with a 2-month history of abdominal pain. Following clinical evaluation and computed tomography scan of the abdomen, a provisional diagnosis of colon cancer was made. Histology of the resected bowel at hemicolectomy demonstrated a perforation by fish bone with an associated abscess. The case illustrates how fish bone perforation may mislead unsuspecting clinicians and may be misdiagnosed as colonic cancer. |
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