Presentation
Abdominal distension.
Patient Data
Age: 60 years
Gender: Male
From the case:
Large bowel obstruction due to colon cancer
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Multiple distended loops of small bowel containing air-fluid levels with dilated ascending colon with normal caliber transverse and distal colon, suspicious for proximal large bowel obstruction.
From the case:
Large bowel obstruction due to colon cancer
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Enhancing colonic mass narrowing the distal ascending colon just proximal to the hepatic flexure, likely a primary colon cancer. Resultant bowel obstruction proximal to the lesion with fluid and gaseous distention of the cecum. No definitive findings of metastatic disease. Cholelithiasis, prostatomegaly.
Case Discussion
The most common cause of a large bowel obstruction is colon cancer.
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