臨床病理学ジャーナル

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Invasive Micro Papillary Carcinoma of the Sigmoid Colon: Distinct Entity

Junainah EM and Alghamdi AR

Micro papillary carcinoma (MC) has been recently recognized as a rare distinctive variant of adenocarcinoma. It is considered as an aggressive variant with a high incidence of lymph node metastasis, only few cases of colorectal MC have been reported. Recently it has been officially recognized in WHO classification We present a case of MC of the sigmoid colon with extensive lymph node metastasis. A 61-year-old female patient was admitted with a complaint of acute abdomen diagnosed as MC of the sigmoid colon. The patient underwent Left hemi colectomy with lymph node dissection.