Dissemination of latent colon adenocarcinoma after laparoscopic cholecystectomy
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1999-11-01
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Azevedo, João Luiz Moreira Coutinho 
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The seeding of neoplasms at trocar sites has been reported with increasing frequency. A case is presented of a 68 year-old woman with metastatic seeding of nondiagnosed colon cancer at the umbilical trocar site used for a laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Histopathological examination showed metastatic adenocarcinoma probably of gastrointestinal origin, A colonoscopy performed at the same time revealed a 2-cm lesion at the hepatic flexure which,vas shown histologically to be a differentiated adenocarcinoma. Diffuse peritoneal carcinomatosis was also found on computerised tomography. It is presumed that the primary colon cancer existed prior to cholecystectomy.
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Endoscopy. Stuttgart: Georg Thieme Verlag, v. 31, n. 9, p. 828-830, 1999.