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Clinical case report and literature review: metachronous colorectal splenic metastases

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A 52-year-old woman with a rising carcinoembryonic antigen CEA, no clinical or radiological findings, a negative colonoscopy, and a positron emission tomography (PET) scan that revealed an isolated hypermetabolic lesion in the spleen. The patient underwent splenectomy by laparoscopic surgery. The pathological study confirmed the presence of an isolated metastasis to the spleen.

This case reveals the rare occurrence of isolated splenic metastases in the context of colorectal cancer and illustrates the role of PET when a patient shows a rising CEA with negative clinicoradiological studies.

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  1. Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Marina Alta, C/ Plana de l’Est, 5, ES-03700, Dènia, Alacant, Spain

    Joan Manel Gasent Blesa

  2. General Surgery Department, Hospital Marina Alta, C/ Plana de l’Est, 5, ES-03700, Dènia, Alacant, Spain

    Eduardo de la Morena

  3. Pathology Department, Hospital Marina Alta, C/ Plana de l’Est, 5, ES-03700, Dènia, Alacant, Spain

    Juan Bautista Laforga Canales & Domingo Vilaseca Martínez

  4. PET Department, Instituto Valenciano de Oncología (IVO), C/ Dr. Beltrán Báguena, 5, ES-46009, Valencia, Spain

    Carlos Vázquez

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Gasent Blesa, J.M., de la Morena, E., Canales, J.B.L. et al. Clinical case report and literature review: metachronous colorectal splenic metastases. Clin Transl Oncol 10, 445–447 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12094-008-0230-9

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