Hiroyuki Maeda, Hajime Yokomizo, Sachiyo Okayama, Yasufumi Yamada, Arika Ida, Masaya Satake, Yuki Yano, Shinichi Asaka, Takefumi Usui, Shunichi Shiozawa, Kazuhiko Yoshimatsu, Takeshi Shimakawa, Takao Katsube, Hiroyuki Kato, Yoshihiko Naritaka
The case was a 76-year-old man. He visited our hospital for a positive fecal occult blood test finding at a medical examination. A colonoscopy revealed a macroscopic, 30 mm, type-1 lesion in the cecum. We performed laparoscope-assisted ileocolic resection and D3 dissection, with a diagnosis of cecum cancer. In postoperative histopathological examination, the tumor in the cecum was diagnosed as a well-differentiated tubular adenocarcinoma. In addition, a low-grade appendiceal mucinous neoplasm(LAMN)was observed on the distal side of the appendix...
March 2019: Gan to Kagaku Ryoho. Cancer & Chemotherapy