Carcinoma in adenoma of the ampulla of Vater synchronous with cancer of the sigmoid colon.
A 58-year-old Japanese man presented with early invasive adenocarcinoma within a papillotubular adenoma of the ampulla of Vater synchronous with advanced adenocarcinoma of the sigmoid colon. The colon had two additional adenomas. This hitherto unreported concomitance in the absence of familial polyposis coli is discussed.
Yoshida
J
J
Department of Surgery, Wakematsu Municipal Hospital, Kitakyushu, Japan.
Morisaki
T
T
Yamaguchi
K
K
Itoh
T
T
Yokohata
K
K
Kishikawa
H
H
Iino
H
H
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D014670:Ampulla of Vater; D002758:Cholangiography; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D003138:Common Bile Duct Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary