Vaginal metastasis of colon cancer

Citation
A. Chagpar et Sc. Kanthan, Vaginal metastasis of colon cancer, AM SURG, 67(2), 2001, pp. 171-172
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Surgery
Journal title
AMERICAN SURGEON
ISSN journal
00031348 → ACNP
Volume
67
Issue
2
Year of publication
2001
Pages
171 - 172
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-1348(200102)67:2<171:VMOCC>2.0.ZU;2-Q
Abstract
True vaginal metastases from colonic cancer are exceedingly rare, This ofte n signals an ominous prognosis. More frequently the vagina is synchronously involved by direct contiguous spread from the colonic lesion, We present a case of sigmoid carcinoma with true metastasis to the vagina that was disc overed after an interval of 3 weeks when vaginal discharge became evident, To our knowledge, there are only two other papers in the English language p reviously documenting this phenomenon.