Our patient was a 58-year-old man who was diagnosed with a large bowel obstruction caused by ascending colon cancer, together with multiple liver metastases for which a right hemicolectomy was performed. After the operation, he developed disseminated intravascular coagulation(DIC)and severe anemia. Bone marrow biopsy findings led to a diagnosis of disseminated carcinomatosis of the bone marrow caused by colon cancer.
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