The coexistence of both kidney and colon primary malignancies is a rare condition. We report the case of a 75-year-old woman who presented with bilateral pulmonary nodules at chest X-ray and stratigraphy. Total-body CT scan showed multiple, apparently metastatic, bilateral pulmonary lesions, a diffusely dysomogeneous neoformation in the lower pole of the right kidney and a gross neoformation in...

Clostridium septicum (C. septicum) aortitis is a rare condition frequently associated with colon adenocarcinoma and carries a poor prognosis. We report the case of a 66-year-old man who presented with abdominal pain, blood in the stool, fever and chills. Laboratory tests were significant for leukocytosis and microcytic anemia. Abdominal imaging revealed a right colon mass and aortitis. Colonosc...

BACKGROUND & AIMS A gradual shift of colorectal adenoma and carcinoma location toward the proximal colon has been recently observed both in the United States and Europe. We aimed to study the polyp and adenoma detection rate in a major endoscopy center of northwestern Romania over a 16-year period, and to characterize the distribution and the pathological features of the removed polyps accordin...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the colorectal cancer clinical data with respect to the anatomical location and stage of disease. DESIGN Retrospective observational study. SETTING Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH), Nairobi, Kenya. SUBJECTS Two hundred and fifty three tumours were categorised as right colonic (RCC), left colonic (LCC) and rectal (RC) lesions. The distribution of symptoms (rectal blee...

Adequate surgery performed in an early stage of the disease offers the best chance for cure in carcinoma of the right colon. It is generally agreed that right colectomy is the preferred method of treatment under these circumstances. This operation can be utilized with a reasonable risk, particularly if the resection is performed precisely in one stage with immediate anastomosis by suture (Harve...

Colon cancer is a major cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. Adjuvant chemotherapy significantly reduces mortality in stage III colon cancer; however, it is only marginally effective in stage II patients. There is also increasing evidence that right-side colon cancer is different from left-side colon cancer. We have observed that the genes altered in expression between the poor and good pr...

A 91-year-old woman presented to our center complaining of nonbloody diarrhea for 6 months and an associated 10-kg weight loss. Her initial lab results suggested hypochromic microcytic anemia. Upper endoscopy showed a fistula between the second portion of duodenum and the right colon (Figure 1). Through the fistula tract, a solid viscera with a nodular mucosa was visible in the lumen of the rig...

Anatomical variations of the colon are described by various authors, but the occurrence of right sided descending and sigmoid colon is rare and has not been reported. We found that the anomalous right-sided descending and sigmoid colon had four parts. The proximal segment of the first part consisted of the descending colon extending across the midline from the splenic flexure to the portion sup...

BACKGROUND Although more than two third of colorectal cancers are localized on the left side, recent studies suggest a right ward shift in anatomical distribution with increase in proximal colon cancers. The aim of the present study was to determine the anatomical distribution of colorectal cancer in a referral center over a 15 year period. METHOD Records of patients who underwent colectomy i...

A 41-year-old male with a history of Down’s syndrome, seizure disorder, renal calculi, and chronic respiratory failure was admitted for complicated urinary tract infection. Chest X-ray (Fig. 1) showed elevated right hemidiaphragm. CT abdomen (red arrows Figs. 2 and 3) demonstrated interposition of colon between right hemidiaphragm and liver (Chilaiditi sign) as well as gallstones. Chilaiditi si...