Journal of Clinical & Experimental Pathology
Open Access

Case Report

Invasive Micro Papillary Carcinoma of the Sigmoid Colon: Distinct Entity

¹Department of Pathology, Taief University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

²Department of Community Medicine, Taief University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

*Corresponding Author:

Enaam Mohammed Junainah
Department of Pathology
Taief University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Tel: 00966544442556
E-mail: mennastar3@hotmail.com

Received Date: June 16, 2016; Accepted Date: July 11, 2016; Published Date: July 13, 2016

Citation: Junainah EM, Alghamdi AR (2016) Invasive Micro Papillary Carcinoma of the Sigmoid Colon: Distinct Entity. J Clin Exp Pathol 6:285. doi: 10.4172/2161-0681.1000285

Copyright: © 2016 Junainah EM, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Micro papillary carcinoma (MC) has been recently recognized as a rare distinctive variant of adenocarcinoma. It is considered as an aggressive variant with a high incidence of lymph node metastasis, only few cases of colorectal MC have been reported. Recently it has been officially recognized in WHO classification We present a case of MC of the sigmoid colon with extensive lymph node metastasis. A 61-year-old female patient was admitted with a complaint of acute abdomen diagnosed as MC of the sigmoid colon. The patient underwent Left hemi colectomy with lymph node dissection.

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