A CASE REPORT OF THE METASTATIC RECTAL CARCINOMA FROM ENDOMETRIAL

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A 77-year-old woman underwent radical hysterectomy for erldometrial carcinoma in 2001.The pathological diagnosis was endometrioid adenocarcinoma with squamous differentiation(Grade 2). Two years and six months after the primary surgery, she was admitted to ourhospital for lower abdominal pain. The colonoscopy revealed submucosal tumor accompaniedwith ulceration on the surface in the rectum. The biopsy specimen revealed poorly differentiat-ed adenocarcinoma. Distant metastasis was not recognized by the other examination. wediagnosed this case as primary carcinoma of the rectum, and the surgical operation wasperformed. The tumor was composed of mostly cancer cells with solid growth pattern by thepathological finding. The pathological diagnosis of the colonic tumor was identified withendometrial carcinoma. We concluded metastatic carcinoma, localized to the rectum, fromendometrial carcinoma.
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