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Ossification of a rectal tumor: CT evaluation
N J Beauchamp1, E Pizer, R H Hruban
1Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore 21287, MD, USA.
Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography
|July 1, 1997
Abstract:
Adenocarcinoma of the colon is a common malignancy. Not infrequently, this tumor can calcify. An extremely rare occurrence in these tumors is ossification. This is the first reported case of rectal carcinoma in which ossification was demonstrated with CT.