title: Invading plant material appearing as a colonic tumoural mass in a four-year-old girl.
abstract: In this article, we report the invasive behaviour of a plant, not described before, which elicited a severe inflammatory response in the colonic wall, and was clinically diagnosed as a mass lesion in a four-year-old girl. Although rectal bezoars are the most frequent complications of ingested dried seeds, this plant behaviour should also be borne in mind in rare occassions.
authors.affiliation: Pathology Department, Markaze Tebbi Koodakan, Children Medical Center affiliated with Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran. fmahjoub@sina.tums.ac.ir
authors.forename: Fatemeh
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Mahjoub
authors.forename: Mehdi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kalantari
authors.forename: Nargess
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Tabarzan
authors.forename: Behnaz
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Moradi
mesh_terms: D001630:Bezoars / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003106:Colon / Q000473:pathology; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008643:Mesentery / Q000473:pathology; D010944:Plants