A 75-year-old woman presented to the Emergency Department complaining of abdominal
pain, distension, nausea, and vomiting for 1 day. Her past medical history was notable
for transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder for which she had undergone radical
cystectomy 5 months earlier. She recently had been evaluated by magnetic resonance
imaging, which demonstrated a 4.3-cm area of rectal wall thickening consistent with
primary rectal neoplasm or spread of her transitional cell carcinoma. On the day before
presentation, she underwent colonoscopy to further evaluate this lesion.
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Publication history
Published online: April 04, 2011
Accepted:
November 5,
2010
Received in revised form:
July 6,
2010
Received:
April 23,
2010
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