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Report of a patient with concomitant abdominal aortic aneurysm and colorectal carcinoma
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Mansoori S1   , Sami H , Moeini A , Moein Jahromi E |
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| We present a 73 year-old severely ill Iranian patient who had a cardiac arrest and a successful cardiopulmonary resuscitation(CPR) one hour after admission in N.I.O.C Hospital. He was a known case of abdominal aortic aneurysm which was accidentally diagnosed by ultrasonography two years ago, so he was emergently operated with probable diagnosis of rupture of aneurysm. Meanwhile, he had a history of painless rectorrhagia unrelated to defecation during the past six months. Tissue diagnosis of rectal adenocarcinoma was defined following a total colonoscopy. Colorectal carcinoma and abdominal aortic aneurysm are common diseases in similar age group. Co-existence of these diseases is rare. Treatment strategy is a big challenge for these patients.
In this patient, aneurysmectomy was performed first, because of emergent condition of the patient, and treatment of the colorectal carcinoma was postponed. |
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| Keywords: Abdominal aortic aneurysm, Colorectal carcinoma, Treatment. |
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Nutrition Sciences
Received: 2006/09/6 | Published: 2005/09/15
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