Distant metastases from colorectal cancer to the abdominal wall are rare presentations of the end-stage of the disease. In this case, we present a female patient treated for Stage I rectosigmoid cancer with the late occurrence of abdominal wall metastasis, 7 years after the primary cancer surgery. The patient was treated with surgical excision and abdominal wall reconstruction with the use of synthetic mesh.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAs one of the most frequent malignancies in the world's population, colorectal cancer is also associated with its complications (perforation, obstruction and bleeding). Their incidence is common (2.6-50%), but synchronous occurrence of two of them in a patient is a rare condition and it is reported in small series or as a case report in the literature.
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