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Rossetto A, Cerato F, Cedolini C, et al. Post-Traumatic Right Lumbar Abscess as First Manifestation of Perforated Right Colon Cancer - A Case Report. Case Rep Oncol. 2010;3(1):40-44doi: 10.1159/000285986.
Rossetto, A., Cerato, F., Cedolini, C., Arena, M. C., Bresadola, V., & Terrosu, G. (2010). Post-Traumatic Right Lumbar Abscess as First Manifestation of Perforated Right Colon Cancer - A Case Report. Case reports in oncology, 3(1), 40-44. https://doi.org/10.1159/000285986
Rossetto, Anna, et al. "Post-Traumatic Right Lumbar Abscess as First Manifestation of Perforated Right Colon Cancer - A Case Report." Case reports in oncology vol. 3,1 (2010): 40-44. doi: https://doi.org/10.1159/000285986
Rossetto A, Cerato F, Cedolini C, Arena MC, Bresadola V, Terrosu G. Post-Traumatic Right Lumbar Abscess as First Manifestation of Perforated Right Colon Cancer - A Case Report. Case Rep Oncol. 2010 Feb 23;3(1):40-44. doi: 10.1159/000285986. PMID: 20740157; PMCID: PMC2918841.
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Case Rep Oncol. 2010 Feb 23;3(1):40-44. doi: 10.1159/000285986.

Post-Traumatic Right Lumbar Abscess as First Manifestation of Perforated Right Colon Cancer - A Case Report.

Case reports in oncology

Anna Rossetto, Franz Cerato, Carla Cedolini, Maria Concetta Arena, Vittorio Bresadola, Giovanni Terrosu

Affiliations

  1. Department of Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital of Udine, Udine, Italy.

PMID: 20740157 PMCID: PMC2918841 DOI: 10.1159/000285986

Abstract

Besides most common signs and symptoms suggesting a colic cancer, sometimes the clinical presentation can be difficult. Extra-abdominal abscess as a first sign of perforated colon carcinoma is a very unusual finding. We report a case of an old male patient, in bad general condition, with a post-traumatic finding of right lumbar abscess. After the percutaneous drainage with discharge of fecal material and a postponed explorative laparotomy, we discovered a perforated right colon carcinoma with a covered perforation affecting the duodenum wall and spreading to the hepatic bedand over to the back lumbar muscular wall. Because of the diffusion of the tumor, the patient was treated with palliative surgery with duodenum suture, right colon segment resection and subsequent ileocolic anastomosis with an uneventful postoperative course. The patient died 2 months later because of neoplastic cachexia.

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