Delayed antemortem diagnosis of adenocarcinoma of the cecum presenting as lower extremity gas gangrene.
Publication/Presentation Date
2-1-1984
Abstract
The rare entity of nontraumatic metastatic gas gangrene is commonly associated with occult gastrointestinal malignancies. Normally the patient's course is fulminant, with rapid demise prior to ascertaining the correct etiology at autopsy. An unusual case is presented in that 65 days following hip disarticulation for gas gangrene the diagnosis of colonic cancer was appropriately suspected and then proven.
Volume
27
Issue
2
First Page
131
Last Page
133
ISSN
0012-3706
Published In/Presented At
Hallock GG. Delayed antemortem diagnosis of adenocarcinoma of the cecum presenting as lower extremity gas gangrene. Dis Colon Rectum. 1984 Feb;27(2):131-3. doi: 10.1007/BF02553996. PMID: 6697832.
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
PubMedID
6697832
Department(s)
Department of Surgery
Document Type
Article
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