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A case of colonic ischemia mimicking carcinoma
Michalis V Karamouzis1, Filitsa A Badra, Athanasios G Papatsoris
1Department of Internal Medicine University Hospital of Patras, Greece. karam@otenet.gr
International Journal of Gastrointestinal Cancer
|June 10, 2003
Abstract:
In this article, we describe a case of colonic ischemia masquerading as colonic carcinoma in a 75-yr-old female. Although this clinical diagnostic problem has been described before, it is rather unusual that the clinical, roentgenographical, endoscopic, and even histopathologic evaluation could not exclude carcinoma with certainty.