TY - JOUR
T1 - Cecal cancer in a teenager presenting with a pelvic mass
T2 - A case report and review of the literature
AU - Kuo, Dennis Yi Shin
AU - Smith, Harriet O.
AU - Runowicz, Carolyn D.
AU - Goldberg, Gary L.
PY - 1994/10
Y1 - 1994/10
N2 - Colorectal cancer generally affects men and women in the later decades of life. Typically patients present with bowel obstruction and/or chronic anemia. The epidemiology, presentation, and prognosis of cecal carcinoma, the third most common colorectal cancer, is similar to other cancers of the large bowel. Cecal and other colorectal cancers rarely present in adolescence. In this case report, we describe a 19-year-old woman presenting with a pelvic mass and elevated tumor markers with the presumed diagnosis of ovarian cancer, who was found to have cecal carcinoma at laparotomy. This case illustrates that colorectal cancer, although rare, should be considered in the differential diagnosis of a pelvic mass in young women who present with anemia, constitutional symptoms, and elevated tumor markers.
AB - Colorectal cancer generally affects men and women in the later decades of life. Typically patients present with bowel obstruction and/or chronic anemia. The epidemiology, presentation, and prognosis of cecal carcinoma, the third most common colorectal cancer, is similar to other cancers of the large bowel. Cecal and other colorectal cancers rarely present in adolescence. In this case report, we describe a 19-year-old woman presenting with a pelvic mass and elevated tumor markers with the presumed diagnosis of ovarian cancer, who was found to have cecal carcinoma at laparotomy. This case illustrates that colorectal cancer, although rare, should be considered in the differential diagnosis of a pelvic mass in young women who present with anemia, constitutional symptoms, and elevated tumor markers.
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U2 - 10.1006/gyno.1994.1265
DO - 10.1006/gyno.1994.1265
M3 - Article
C2 - 7959257
AN - SCOPUS:0028062866
SN - 0090-8258
VL - 55
SP - 149
EP - 151
JO - Gynecologic Oncology
JF - Gynecologic Oncology
IS - 1
ER -