Case report: Retroperitoneal bronchogenic cyst as a diagnostic dilemma after colon cancer diagnosis.

Exp Mol Pathol

Harbor-UCLA, Department of Pathology, 1000 W. Carson St., Torrance, CA 90509, United States. Electronic address:

Published: April 2018

A 52 year-old obese male presented with a moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma of the sigmoid colon. On staging CT, the patient was found to have a cystic lesion in the left retroperitoneum.

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