A young woman from Cameroon with rectal blood loss, intestinal schistosomiasis and rectosigmoid carcinoma
Müller, M.C.A.; van der Werf, S.D.J.
Nederlands Tijdschrift Voor Geneeskunde 152(16): 951-955
2008
ISSN/ISBN: 0028-2162 PMID: 18561793 Document Number: 615323
A 32-year-old woman from Cameroon presented (in the Netherlands) with rectal blood loss due to a focally infiltrating adenocarcinoma of the rectosigmoid in the presence of active intestinal schistosomiasis (Schistosoma intercalatum). A correlation between chronic intestinal schistosomiasis and the development of colorectal cancer has been suggested in the literature, but is not uniformly accepted. However, the case presented here reinforces this suggestion.