Abstract

CAND HUERTA, Cosme et al. Colon cancer: a rare cause of fever of unknown origin . Rev cubana med [online]. 2008, vol.47, n.2, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-302X.

Colon cancer rarely appears as a fever of unknown origin without another orienting symptomatology. This article reports a patient with daily fever between 38 ºC and 39 ºC for 4 and a half months. The patient was diagnosed a moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma of ascending colon. Laparoscopic hemicolectomy was performed and resolution of the febrile picture was observed in 48 hours.

Keywords : FUO (fever of unknown origin); colon adenocarcinoma.

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