Extramedullary hemopoiesis arising in the gut mimicking carcinoma of the cecum.
A patient initially treated for iron deficiency anemia was later found to have myelofibrosis. She developed increasing splenomegaly and then a mass in the right iliac fossa for which a right hemicolectomy was performed. Histopathology demonstrated extramedullary hemopoiesis in the spleen and cecum. The patient subsequently developed a protein-losing enteropathy and she deteriorated and died 14 mths later. Autopsy was not performed.
Sunderland
K
K
Department of Oncology, Woden Valley Hospital, Australian Capital Territory.
Barratt
J
J
Pidcock
M
M
D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000473:pathology; D002430:Cecal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002432:Cecum / Q000473:pathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006411:Hematopoiesis, Extramedullary / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D055728:Primary Myelofibrosis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013154:Spleen / Q000473:pathology