Heterotopic ossification in skeletal muscle metastasis from colonic adenocarcinoma--a case report
The Malaysian Journal of Pathology
;
: 119-21, 2005.
Article
in Malayalam
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-629305
ABSTRACT
Colonic adenocarcinoma metastasising to the skeletal muscle is rare. A-56-yr-old Malay man was diagnosed to have adenocarcinoma of the right colon [Dukes B] for which a right hemicolectomy was performed, followed by radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Five years later the patient presented with a mass in the rectus abdominis muscle. The serum carcinoembryonic antigen was 71 ng/Ml. The mass was resected. Gross and microscopical examination showed multiple deposits of mucin-secreting adenocarcinoma with prominent heterotopic ossification in the stroma. The exact pathogenesis and significance of heterotopic ossification is not clear, but bone morphogenetic proteins may play an important role.
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Main subject:
Adenocarcinoma
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Muscle, Skeletal
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Neoplasm Metastasis
Language:
Malayalam
Journal:
The Malaysian Journal of Pathology
Year:
2005
Type:
Article
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