Meeting
Abstract Number: 581
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 30-year-old morbidly obese woman with a history of Lynch syndrome (hereditary non‐polyposis colorectal cancer), who presented with complaints of lower back pain and subjective fevers. Six months before this presentation she was diagnosed with a large lower paraspinal hematoma treated with embolization and gel foam implantation. Upon presentation, the patient was vitally […]
Abstract Number: 874
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 47 year old woman with Lynch syndrome presented with only intermittent abdominal discomfort and mucus in her stools for several months. Colonoscopy showed patchy erythema in the cecum and the transverse colon. The pathology revealed high-grade dysplasia with focal intramucosal signet ring cell carcinoma. Immunohistochemical stains were positive for CD68, CDX2, pankeratin […]