Abdou J, Omor Y, Boutayeb S, Elkhannoussi B, Errihani H. Isolated splenic metastasis from colon cancer: Case report. World J Gastroenterol 2016; 22(18): 4610-4614 [PMID: 27182171 DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v22.i18.4610]
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Jiddou Abdou, MD, Medical Oncology Department, National Institute of Oncology Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdallah, PO BOX 6213, Rabat 10000, Morocco. jidou.abdou@yahoo.fr
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Oncology
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Case Report
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Jiddou Abdou, Saber Boutayeb, Hassan Errihani, Medical Oncology Department, National Institute of Oncology Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdallah, Rabat 10000, Morocco
Youssef Omor, Radiology Department, National Institute of Oncology Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdallah, Rabat 10000, Morocco
Basma Elkhannoussi, Pathology Department, National Institute of Oncology Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdallah, Rabat 10000, Morocco
Author contributions: Abdou J, Boutayeb S and Errihani H designed the report; Omor Y performed Radiology analyses; Elkhannoussi B performed the pathology analyses; and Abdou J analyzed the data and wrote the paper.
Institutional review board statement: This case report was exempt from the Institutional Review Board at The National Institute of Oncology Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdallah, Rabat, Morocco.
Informed consent statement: The patient provided its written informed consent before publication of this case report.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All the authors have no conflicts of interests to declare.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Jiddou Abdou, MD, Medical Oncology Department, National Institute of Oncology Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdallah, PO BOX 6213, Rabat 10000, Morocco. jidou.abdou@yahoo.fr
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Received: December 1, 2015 Peer-review started: December 2, 2015 First decision: January 13, 2016 Revised: February 14, 2016 Accepted: March 1, 2016 Article in press: March 2, 2016 Published online: May 14, 2016
Abstract
Isolated splenic metastases from colorectal cancer are very rare clinical entities and when they are present, they usually manifest widely disseminated disease. In this paper we report a case of metachronous solitary isolated splenic metastasis from colon cancer in a 64-year-old woman who was successfully treated by laparoscopic splenectomy. We discuss the pathological and clinical aspects of this condition. We furthermore comment on the diagnostic and therapeutic options of this rare entity through our observation of the case and consideration of the 31 case reports published in the literature.
Core tip: Isolated splenic metastases from colon cancer are very rare, reporting of such cases was encouraged and recommended in several publications of this clinical entity to improve the management and survival of patients on stronger well-founded evidence.
