학술논문

Case 39-2016.
Document Type
Journal Article
Source
New England Journal of Medicine. 12/22/2016, Vol. 375 Issue 25, p2481-2488. 8p.
Subject
*RECTUM abnormalities
*RADIOISOTOPE brachytherapy
*HYPERLIPIDEMIA
*SQUAMOUS cell carcinoma
*COLONOSCOPY
Language
ISSN
0028-4793
Abstract
The article presents a case study of a 74-year-old man with a history of prostate cancer and rectal bleeding that had been treated with brachytherapy and revealed elevated level of prostate-specific antigen had been noted on routine screening. It mentions that patient also had hyperlipidemia, obesity, and multiple actinic keratoses and had undergone excision of several cutaneous squamous-cell and basal-cell carcinomas. It also mentions that colonoscopy revealed a firm and sessile cecal polyp.