You will usually only need to have a portion of your colon removed for colon cancer. In rare circumstances such as in longstanding ulcerative colitisor in cases where large numbers of polyps are found, then the entire colon may need to be removed. Most colon cancer surgery will not result i...
A 60-year-old with metastatic colon cancer reported to the hospital with upper abdominal pain. The pain was described as belt-like, with a rating of 9/10 on the numeric rating scale. After evaluation, it was decided that the pain was from distention of the hepatic capsule due to me...
Pregnancy, colon cancerA 37-year-old pregnant Japanese woman presented with right upper quadrant pain and pitting edema of the lower extremity. She had become pregnant via intrauterine insemination after a long history of infertility. She was admitted for suspected toxemia. Abdominal ultrasonography ...
A 72-year-old male presented at a local hospital with upper abdominal pain. He was diagnosed with transverse colon cancer by colonoscopy, and he was admitted to our hospital to undergo surgery. Colonoscopy demonstrated a circumferential-type tumor located in the mid-transverse colon. A biopsy rev...
Other symptoms can be harder to pinpoint as cancer, such as abdominal pain and unintentional weight loss. Finally, some tumors bleed a small amount over a long period of time, resulting in anemia (a low red blood cell count) that is picked up on a blood test. A few other possible symp...
Colon canceroften produces minimal or no symptoms, emphasizing the need for screening programs in the general population. Manycolon cancersymptoms are nonspecific, including changes inbowel habits,weakness, intermittent abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting. The persistence of such symptoms as well as an...
Sarcomatoid carcinoma of the gallbladder (SCGB) is a rare and aggressive variant of gallbladder cancer, and its coexistence with colon cancer is exceedingly uncommon. We report a case of an 86-year-old woman who presented with right upper abdominal pain initially suspected as cholecystitis. ...
SIGMOID COLON CANCER AND SCHISTOSOMIASIS JAPONICA A 63-year-old woman visited our hospital with upper abdominal pain and jaundice. Abdominal CT examination revealed a gallstone, cholecystitis and a thrombus in the left branch of the portal vein, which had most probably been induced by c... S Ka...
Colon cancer is now often detected during screening procedures. Other common clinical presentations include the following: Iron-deficiency anemia Rectal bleeding Abdominal pain Change in bowel habits Intestinal obstruction or perforation Physical findings may include the following: Early disease: Nonspecific ...
A report of a 67-year-old man, who had been suffering from an enterocutaneous fistula after a left hemicolectomy due to colon cancer is presented. He had sudden intermittent upper abdominal pain and a high amylase level in the drainage f... JB Chung,DK Lee,MW Kim,... - 《Journal of...