Introduction:

Polyps are benign excrescences of the colonic mucosa and other parts of the gastrointestinal tract that can be sessile or pedunculated according to their forms and according to their single or multiple numbers. They occur at any age, but are more frequent in childhood.

Objective:

To present the case of a patient diagnosed and treated with a malignant colonic polyposis.

Case report:

White, 25-year-old female patient, with no previous health history, attended the Coloproctology consultation of the María Curie Oncology Teaching Hospital in January 2023. On interrogation, she manifested abdominal pain located towards the flank region and left iliac fossa of great intensity, intermittent and only relieved with the administration of analgesics in high doses and radiated asymmetrically to other regions of the abdomen and presence of other general symptoms such as: mucus diarrhea, weight loss and anorexia, so it was decided to indicate complementary studies and treatment to the patient.

Conclusions:

The result of the histological study was neoplastic polyps of the adenomatous type, at the level of the rectum under a malignant tumor of the well-differentiated, ulcerated adenocarcinoma type. Now with favorable evolution and improvement of her symptoms.

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