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Primary Rectal Cancer from Outside the Rectum
Jovenel Cherenfant*, Francesca M. Ruggiero, Mistry Gage and Lisa Poritz
Department of Colorectal Surgery and Pathology at Penn State Hershey College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA
- *Corresponding Author:
- Jovenel Cherenfant
Franciscan Hammond Clinic
Surgery, 9800 Valparaiso Ct Munster
IN 46321, USA
Tel: 617-818-1942
E-mail: jovenel1@yahoo.com
Received date: September 29, 2014; Accepted date: October 29, 2014; Published date: November 05 24, 2014
Citation: Cherenfant J, Ruggiero FM, Gage M, Poritz L (2014) Primary Rectal Cancer from Outside the Rectum. J Gastrointest Dig Syst 4:237. doi:10.4172/2161-069X.1000237
Copyright: © 2014 Cherenfant J, 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.
Abstract
Rectal cancer typically arises from the epithelial cells lining the lumen of the rectum. Extra-luminal primary rectal cancers are rare and differ histologically from retrorectal and sacral tumors. The current report presents the case of a 44 year-old male who developed adenocarcinoma outside of the lumen of the rectum 38 years after he underwent a pull-through procedure for Hirschsprung’s disease. We hypothesize that the tumor emerged from an excluded, entrapped segment of rectal mucosa at the time of the patient’s childhood procedure.
