1/8. Accidentally delayed diagnosis of ruptured ovarian carcinoma in a young woman: a care report.Ovarian carcinoma commonly occurs in postmenopausal women and often presents with an insidious course. Acute abdomen is rarely an initial symptom. When these patients present with abdominal discomfort, the disease has already spread throughout the peritoneal cavity. We present a case of mucinous cystadenocarcinoma in a young woman who presented with acute abdomen and intra-abdominal bleeding. This 24-year-old woman was previously diagnosed with a ruptured left ovarian cystic tumor at a primary clinic. She underwent emergency exploratory laparotomy, followed by unilateral salpingo-oophorectomy at the clinic. No thorough examination of the peritoneal cavity was done during surgery. The diagnosis of mucinous cystadenocarcinoma was accidentally over-looked until one month later when she returned for routine follow-up. Upon referral to our clinic, the patient underwent a repeat laparotomy. The surgicopathologic diagnosis was intraperitoneal carcinomatosis stage IIIC that could not be excised completely, even though rigorous staging surgery including washing cytology, total abdominal hysterectomy, salpingo-oophorectomy, retroperitoneal lymphadenectomy, appendectomy, infracolic omentectomy and excision of any suspicious and removable lesions were performed. This case alerts us to consider the possibility of ovarian malignancy when a young woman presents with an acute abdomen secondary to ruptured ovarian cystic tumor and intraperitoneal hemorrhage. Careful preoperative preparation and thorough intrasurgical examination of the peritoneal cavity along with a prompt pathologic diagnosis of suspicious lesions will prevent missed diagnoses.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 1keywords = adenocarcinoma (Clic here for more details about this article) |
2/8. Adenocarcinoma of the appendix in pregnancy: a case report.BACKGROUND: Perforation of an adenocarcinoma of the appendix in a pregnant woman is rare and may present as a pelvic mass and acute appendicitis. CASE: A 30-year-old woman, gravida 3, para 2-0-0-2, presented at 26 weeks' gestation with an acute abdomen, right-sided pelvic mass and uterine contractions. tocolysis and prompt surgical exploration revealed a perforated appendix. The patient underwent a right hemicolectomy with primary anastomosis, her postoperative course was benign, and she delivered a viable infant at term vaginally. pathology revealed a perforated adenocarcinoma of the appendix. The patient was free of disease at 36 months. CONCLUSION: Adenocarcinoma of the appendix in pregnancy is rare, may present as an acute abdomen with a mass and is managed with right hemicolectomy.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 1keywords = adenocarcinoma (Clic here for more details about this article) |
3/8. Rare cause of abdominal pain in childhood: computed tomography findings in a 14-year-old boy with a colonic carcinoma.Carcinoma of the colon during infancy and childhood is a rare disease, and the diagnosis is usually not taken into consideration in a child complaining of abdominal pain. Owing to the lack of awareness of its occurrence and the histological cell type, it generally presents as advanced disease. We report on the case of a 14-year-old patient admitted to hospital with an acute abdomen and a 2-month history of night sweats and weight loss of 10 kg. Ultrasound and computed tomography revealed an unclear mass of the lower abdomen, and colonoscopic histopathologic examination disclosed an obstructing tubular-papillary adenocarcinoma of the sigmoid colon. Colonic carcinoma should be included as a differential diagnosis in young patients with abdominal pain of unknown etiology.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 0.5keywords = adenocarcinoma (Clic here for more details about this article) |
4/8. Misdiagnosed papillary renal adenocarcinoma.We present 3 patients with papillary renal adenocarcinoma who were initially misdiagnosed owing to unusual clinical presentation. We suggest that if these presentations are borne in mind, pre-operative detection of this uncommon condition should be possible more often than is now the case.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 2.5keywords = adenocarcinoma (Clic here for more details about this article) |
5/8. rupture of a renal cell carcinoma in a child: five-year tumor-free survival and literature review.The third case of presumably spontaneous rupture of a hypernephroma in a child is reported. This patient remains free of disease more than 5 years following radical nephrectomy, radiation and chemotherapy. Although renal adenocarcinoma in children remains a rare disease, more than 80 cases have appeared in the literature, making it necessary now to consider this tumor in the differential diagnosis of all childhood abdominal masses. Equally significant is the observation that presentation as an acute abdominal crisis in a child can occur, making it important that diagnostic considerations in such situations include hypernephroma, as well as Wilms' tumor. review of the literature shows that occasional cures from spontaneous retroperitoneal rupture of hypernephromas have been reported in adults, but not in children, although this child has survived in spite of tumor spillage in the free peritoneal cavity.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 0.5keywords = adenocarcinoma (Clic here for more details about this article) |
6/8. Spontaneous kidney rupture due to a metastatic renal tumour. Case report.Spontaneous rupture of the kidney is an uncommon entity. In most cases the non-traumatic rupture is associated with underlying diseases of the kidney, the most frequent being renal tumours. We report the case of a spontaneous kidney rupture due to a renal metastasis from an adenocarcinoma of the colon.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 0.5keywords = adenocarcinoma (Clic here for more details about this article) |
7/8. A case presentation and review of neutropenic enterocolitis.Neutropenic enterocolitis (NE) is an unusual complication of neutropenia. Its presentation is dramatic, treatment is controversial, and the outcome may be devastating. The available literature about this entity is mainly case reports and autopsy studies. We have recently performed a celiotomy on a patient who developed sepsis and an acute surgical abdomen three days following chemotherapy and radiotherapy for a metastatic adenocarcinoma with no known primary tumor. At surgery he was found to have a boggy right and recto-sigmoid colon with a grossly normal transverse colon. Intraoperative colonoscopy revealed mucosal ulceration and necrosis extending from the dentate line to the cecum. A total abdominal colectomy, closure of the rectal stump, and an ileostomy was performed. Postoperatively, the patient recovered from the abdominal septic process only to succumb to multiple system organ failure secondary to pulmonary sepsis. Upon review of the literature, we found 65 cases of NE that were suspected or diagnosed in the antemortem state and confirmed at surgery or autopsy. In this review, we intend to analyze these case reports, summarize the salient features of the disease and outline the optimal therapeutic approach.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 0.5keywords = adenocarcinoma (Clic here for more details about this article) |
8/8. Solid and papillary neoplasm of the pancreas: a case presentation.Solid and papillary tumors of the pancreas are very rare malignancies, more commonly occurring in young women. They usually present as asymptomatic, large abdominal masses, and different from the most common neoplasm of the pancreas, which is the adenocarcinoma, these tumors have a high percentage of curability when treated by complete surgical resection. (6) For this reason, when the diagnosis of Frantz's tumor is made or strongly suspected, every attempt should be made for complete surgical excision since curability is high and radiotherapy and, or chemotherapy are of no use for its treatment.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 0.5keywords = adenocarcinoma (Clic here for more details about this article) |