Colitis quística profunda posradioterapia: Caso clínico

Autor: de Toro C, Gonzalo, Villaseca H, Miguel, Roa S, Juan Carlos
Jazyk: Spanish; Castilian
Rok vydání: 2007
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Zdroj: Revista médica de Chile, Volume: 135, Issue: 6, Pages: 759-763, Published: JUN 2007
Popis: Colitis cystica profunda is a benign condition that can be confused with adenocarcinoma. We report a 35year-old woman that received radiotherapy for a uterine cervical carcinoma who presented intermittent hematochezia three times after ending the therapy. This episode was diagnosed and treated as a radiation colitis and the patient remained asymptomatic for six years. After this period she presented again intermittent hematochezia and a rectal mass that was surgically removed. The pathology report disclosed a colitis cystica profunda
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