Metachronous splenic metastasis from colonic carcinoma five years after surgery: A case report and literature review

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 102, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 733-735

  Siler, Pierpaolo ^a,b   D'Ugo, Stefano ^a   Benavoli, Domenico ^a   Stolfi, Vito M ^a   Palmieri, Giampiero ^a   Mele, Alessandra ^a   Gaspari, Achille L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b TOR VERGATA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Colon carcinoma; Splenic metastasis; Surgery

Indexed keywords

CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COLON CARCINOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEMICOLECTOMY; HUMAN; LIVER CANCER; MALE; METASTASIS; MICROSCOPY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; SPLEEN CANCER; SPLENECTOMY; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR VOLUME; COLON RESECTION; COLON TUMOR; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW; SPLEEN TUMOR;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; COLECTOMY; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MALE; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 67650333869     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SMJ.0b013e3181a93c39     Document Type: Article

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