Colorectal carcinoma in a 9-year-old boy
| Autor: | M. Malota, C. Kabs, I. Teichert-von Lüttichau, S. Hosie |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Chemotherapy business.industry Colorectal cancer General surgery Incidence (epidemiology) medicine.medical_treatment Gastroenterology medicine.disease Colorectal surgery 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine FOLFOX 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis medicine Adenocarcinoma Ascending colon 030211 gastroenterology & hepatology Surgery business medicine.drug Abdominal surgery |
| Zdroj: | coloproctology. 39:399-402 |
| ISSN: | 1615-6730 0174-2442 |
| Popis: | While colorectal carcinoma is a common tumor entity in adults, it is extremely rare in children with an incidence of 1:1000000 and represents a minor proportion of pediatric neoplasia cases with an incidence of less than 1%. If colorectal carcinoma occurs, the outcome is often fatal due to aggressive tumor biology with mostly mucinous, poorly differentiated, and aggressively growing tumors; the clinical symptoms are often attributed too late to a malignancy. The present report describes the case of a 9-year-old boy who presented with complaints of general weakness and recurrent abdominal pain, caused by an adenocarcinoma of the ascending colon (T3 N1 M0). After right hemicolectomy, chemotherapy was performed using the FOLFOX 4 scheme. To our knowledge, this case report is of the youngest patient affected by a primary, non-syndrome-associated colorectal adenocarcinoma. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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