Fish bone perforation mimicking colon cancer: A case report
SA Journal of Radiology
| Field | Value | |
| Title | Fish bone perforation mimicking colon cancer: A case report | |
| Creator | Sibanda, Thokozani Pakkiri, Pria Ndlovu, Anne | |
| Description | Most patients who ingest fish bones do not develop any complications. The small proportion of patients who do complicate, present with non-specific symptoms. A 64-year-old female patient presented with a 2-month history of abdominal pain. Following clinical evaluation and computed tomography scan of the abdomen, a provisional diagnosis of colon cancer was made. Histology of the resected bowel at hemicolectomy demonstrated a perforation by fish bone with an associated abscess. The case illustrates how fish bone perforation may mislead unsuspecting clinicians and may be misdiagnosed as colonic cancer. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2020-09-29 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/sajr.v24i1.1885 | |
| Source | South African Journal of Radiology; Vol 24, No 1 (2020); 4 pages 2078-6778 1027-202X | |
| Language | eng | |
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