title: [Segmental colonic stenosis in intestinal metastasis of breast carcinoma. A contribution to the differential diagnosis of colitis].
abstract: Four years after mastectomy for a scirrhous carcinoma a 71-year-old woman developed diarrhoea. Crohn's disease was suspected. At endoscopy a stenosis of the sigmoid colon was found which could not be passed: the mucosa was normal looking. Gastrointestinal radiography revealed segmental subtotal stenoses of the colon with linitis plastica, typical for tumour-caused infiltration, as well as indentations in the small intestine by mesenteric metastases. The diagnosis was confirmed by computed tomography and, finally, operation. Chemotherapy failed to produce any regression of the colon stenoses, and the patient died from mechanical ileus. In case of a similar history and colon stenoses of uncertain aetiology the possibility of intestinal metastases should be considered in the differential diagnosis.
authors.affiliation: Zentrum für Innere Medizin, Abteilung für Strahlendiagnostik, Universität Marburg.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Koop
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Dombrowski
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Maroske
authors.forename: W B
authors.initials: WB
authors.lastname: Schwerk
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Schmitz-Moormann
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Arnold
mesh_terms: D002293:Adenocarcinoma, Scirrhous / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary*; D000368:Aged; D003108:Colonic Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary*; D003251:Constriction, Pathologic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology; D003424:Crohn Disease / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008643:Mesentery; D010534:Peritoneal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary*; D012811:Sigmoid Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography
vernacular_title: Segmentale Kolonstenosen bei intestinal metastasierendem Mammakarzinom. Ein Beitrag zur Differentialdiagnose der Kolitis.