Diffuse Intestinal Submucosal Lipomatosis with Incidental Epidermal Inclusion Cyst of Caecum Clinically Masquerading as Carcinoma Caecum

Diffuse Intestinal Submucosal Lipomatosis with Incidental Epidermal Inclusion Cyst of Caecum Clinically Masquerading as Carcinoma Caecum

Symptomatic diffuse submucosal intestinal lipomatosis is a rare entity. Also few cases of epidermal inclusion cyst of caecum have been reported in literature. Here, we are presenting a rare case of intestinal submucosal lipomatosis with coincidence of epidermal inclusion cyst of caecum and presumptively diagnosed as carcinoma of ileocaecal region during surgery in a 55 years old male. Both are ...

Carcinoma Caecum Misdiagnosed as Appendicitis: A Case Report

A 20 years young male presented with history of pain right lower abdomen for 3 months. Pain was intermittent, colicky in nature. There was history of nausea and occasional episodes of vomiting. On detailed history he had undergone open appendectomy 3 months back but the symptoms persisted. Patient was evaluated with routine blood investigations, Ultrasound and CT scan abdomen which showed fluid...

Diffuse Intestinal Lipomatosis Presenting as Adult Intussusception

Background: A 25-year old female presented to the Emergency Department with intermittent abdominal pain. Computed tomography imaging demonstrated multiple fat-density tumors in the small intestine and colon associated with two long-segment intussusceptions. Methods: Colonoscopy showed a partially obstructing multilobulated mass in the descending colon; biopsy was non-diagnostic. At exploratory ...

Metastatic cervical carcinoma in the caecum.

A patient who presented with acute intestinal obstruction had a right hemicolectomy for a caecal tumour. The histopathology report confirmed metastatic carcinoma in the caecum from the cervical carcinoma. Caecum is a very rare site of metastasis from cervical carcinoma. From our literature review, there have been no such cases reported.

Leiomyoma of the caecum presenting as peritonitis.