Pyoderma gangrenosum (PG) is a rare chronic neutrophilic dermatosis characterized by painful necrotic ulceration. The most common diseases associated with PG are inflammatory bowel disease, certain rheumatologic and hematologic diseases, and malignancy. Here, we describe the case of a 60-year-old man who presented with pruritic and painful erythematous ulcerative macules and patches on both low...

Rectal adenocarcinoma, in contrast to colorectal carcinoma, is typical of its high local reccurence rate. Radiotherapy is proved to reduce the incidence of recurrences. Neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy demonstrated better treatment results than adjuvant chemoradiotherapy. Standard cytotoxic agents involved in combination therapy are 5- flurouracil or capecitabin. Epidermal growth factor receptor (...

INTRODUCTION There is a 0.16% chance of a rectourethral fistula after prostate brachytherapy monotherapy using Palladium-103 or Iodine-125 implants. We present an unusual case report of a rectourethral fistula following brachyradiotherapy monotherapy for prostate adenocarcinoma. It was also associated with unusual management of the fistula. CASE PRESENTATION A 58-year-old Caucasian man underw...

To cite: Nwankwo N, Mirrakhimov AE, Zdunek T, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2013009503 DESCRIPTION A 69-year-old man with a medical history of HIV infection and prostate cancer presented to our practice complaining of lower abdominal pain and rectal bleeding. Prostate cancer was diagnosed in 1990, for which the patient underwent radiation ...

INTRODUCTION Prostatic metastasis from a primary bowel adenocarcinoma has been only rarely reported in the medical literature. The case reported here is rare in the fact that the primary tumor was from a right-sided bowel adenocarcinoma. It is unusual because initial immunostaining was not fully conclusive, and so a relatively new method of immunostaining, CDX2, was used to ascertain its histop...

BACKGROUND As in ulcerative colitis, there is an increased incidence of colorectal carcinoma in Crohn's disease. While carcinoma formation originating from ano-rectal fistulas is generally considered as a rare event there are different publications reporting on mucinous adenocarcinoma formation in association with a neovagina and rectovaginal fistulas. To the best of our knowledge this is the f...

Penile cancer is a serious but largely under-represented phenomenon in many of the large national cancer databases. Even more rare is the presentation of solitary metastasis to the penis from a gastrointestinal primary site. This case describes one such case of metastasis of rectal adenocarcinoma and details the patient's treatment modalities. Ultimately, although the precise etiology of this p...

Vol. 28, No. 3, 2016 393 Received March 16, 2015, Revised May 4, 2015, Accepted for publication June 1, 2015 Corresponding author: Jae Eun Choi, Department of Dermatology, Anam Hospital, Korea University College of Medicine, 73 Inchon-ro, Seongbukgu, Seoul 02841, Korea. Tel: 82-2-920-5470, Fax: 82-2-928-7540, E-mail: [email protected] This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of...