tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "A giant colonic diverticulum presenting as a 'phantom mass': a case report"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: A giant colonic diverticulum presenting as a 'phantom mass': a case report | Journal of Medical Case Reports BioMed Central Open Access Case report A giant colonic diverticulum presenting as a phantom mass a case report Ayman S Abdelrazeq 1 Anwar E Owais2 Munther I Aldoori3 and Ian D Botterill4 Address 1North Cheshire NHS Trust Hospitals Lovely Lane Warrington WA5 1QG UK 2Department of General Surgery Scarborough General Hospital Scarborough UK 3General surgery Huddersfield Royal Infirmary Huddersfield UK and 4Department of Colorectal Surgery St. James s University Hospital Leeds UK Email Ayman S Abdelrazeq - aymonrazeq@ Anwar E Owais - anwarowais@ Munther I Aldoori - Ian D Botterill - Corresponding author Published 27 January 2009 Received 7 March 2008 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2009 3 29 doi 1752-1947-3-29 Accepted 27 January 2009 This article is available from http content 3 1 29 2009 Abdelrazeq et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract_ Introduction Diverticulosis coli is the most common disease of the colon in Western countries. Giant colonic diverticulum defined as a colonic diverticulum measuring 4 cm in size or larger represents an unusual manifestation of this common clinical entity. Case presentation A 68-year-old Caucasian British woman with a history of intermittent lower abdominal mass leg swelling and focal neurological symptoms underwent extensive non-diagnostic investigations over a significant period under a number of disciplines. The reason for a diagnosis being elusive in part related to the fact that the mass was never found on clinical and ultrasound examination. .