One cancer destroys another: short report of a myeloid sarcoma causing ischaemic necrosis of an adenocarcinoma.
We present a highly unusual case and histological images of a patient who underwent complete resection of a perforated caecal adenocarcinoma caused by angiodestruction of the proximal vasculature by a distinct acute myeloid infiltrate. Both tumours were removed in their entirety at one visit to theatre and the patient remains well and in remission 18 months later.
Department of Haematology, Derriford Hospital, , Plymouth, UK.
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Tucker
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Sarsfield
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Chandler
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Kerr
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000473:pathology*; D000368:Aged; D002430:Cecal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009336:Necrosis; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000473:pathology*; D023981:Sarcoma, Myeloid / Q000473:pathology*
Carcinoma; Gut Pathology; Haemato-Oncology; Immunohistochemistry; Leukaemia