title: [A woman with an umbilical swelling].
abstract: A 78-year-old woman presented with a 9-month history of an ulcerative umbilical swelling, which had recently started to produce feces. An abdominal CT-scan showed a tumour in the transverse colon, infiltrating the abdominal wall and skin, but without signs of distant metastases. Histopathological examination of a biopsy specimen revealed a slime-producing adenocarcinoma. Due to a myocardial infarction, the patient died two days prior to surgery. No permission to conduct an autopsy was granted.
authors: Kennemer Gasthuis, afd. Algemene Heelkunde, Haarlem, the Netherlands. r.buijsman@westfriesgasthuis.nl
authors: René
authors: R
authors: Buijsman
authors: Niels
authors: N
authors: de Korte
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D000368:Aged; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014472:Umbilicus / Q000473:pathology*