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Presentation of Case

A 59-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of increasing constipation, abdominal pain, and a rectosigmoid mass.

The patient had been well until three months earlier, when pain in the right lower quadrant and constipation developed and gradually worsened; she passed mucus in her stools, without blood. Three weeks before admission colonoscopic examination at the gastrointestinal clinic showed a concentric mass, approximately 8 cm in diameter, in the sigmoid colon, with nearly complete obstruction. A pediatric endoscope was passed into the ascending colon with difficulty. No further abnormalities were observed. It was noted that the mucosa overlying the mass . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Differential Diagnosis

Clinical Diagnoses

Dr. Arlan F. Fuller, Jr.'s, Diagnoses

Pathological Discussion

Anatomical Diagnoses

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