Umbilical metastasis mimicking symptomatic hernia: Report of a case of Sister Mary Joseph Syndrome.

Autor:	Cestaro G; EOC - 'Beata Vergine' Mendrisio Regional Hospital, Department of Surgery, Via Alfonso Turconi, 23, CH 6850, Mendrisio, Canton Ticino, Switzerland. Electronic address: giovanni.cestaro@eoc.ch., De Monti M; EOC - 'Beata Vergine' Mendrisio Regional Hospital, Department of Surgery, Via Alfonso Turconi, 23, CH 6850, Mendrisio, Canton Ticino, Switzerland., Alkayyali S; EOC - 'Beata Vergine' Mendrisio Regional Hospital, Department of Surgery, Via Alfonso Turconi, 23, CH 6850, Mendrisio, Canton Ticino, Switzerland., Fasolini F; EOC - 'Beata Vergine' Mendrisio Regional Hospital, Department of Surgery, Via Alfonso Turconi, 23, CH 6850, Mendrisio, Canton Ticino, Switzerland., Salmoiraghi F; EOC - 'Beata Vergine' Mendrisio Regional Hospital, Department of Surgery, Via Alfonso Turconi, 23, CH 6850, Mendrisio, Canton Ticino, Switzerland.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	International journal of surgery case reports [Int J Surg Case Rep] 2017; Vol. 41, pp. 105-106. Date of Electronic Publication: 2017 Oct 17.
DOI:	10.1016/j.ijscr.2017.10.016
Abstrakt:	Introduction: An umbilical mass can be the first symptom of an intra-abdominal neoplasia, and this condition is also defined as Sister Mary Joseph Syndrome. Case Presentation: An eighty-year-old patient presented with a complicated umbilical hernia. CT scan abdomen revealed a pancreatic neoplasm and an umbilical biopsy confirmed diagnosis of metastasis. Patient started chemotherapy by Oncologists. Conclusions: In this paper the Authors suggest a histopathological evaluation of umbilical fat in all cases of newly emerging umbilical hernia in the adult population. (Copyright © 2017 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.)
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