Abstract
A rare case of mucus-secreting adenocarcinoma in a tubular duplication of the sigmoid colon is presented. The pertinent radiographic manifestations were: a calcium containing soft tissue mass located at the blind end of a 20 cm barium filled tubular duplication originating at the sigmoid colon.
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Arkema, K.K., Calenoff, L. Adenocarcinoma in tubular duplication of the sigmoid colon. Gastrointest Radiol 2, 137–139 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02256486
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