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Cecal fecaloma mimicking colonic neoplasm

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We present the case of a young man with chronic diarrhea associated with an apparent cecal neoplasm roentgenographically. The lesion was diagnosed as a fecaloma only after the curative right hemicolectomy specimen was examined.

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  1. Department of Medicine, Wayne State University School of Medicine, 540 East Canfield Avenue, 48201, Detroit, Michigan

    Arturo A. Cid MD, Teresa Pietruk MD, Changiz Z. Bidari MD &  Murray N. Ehrinpreis MD

  2. Department of Pathology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, 540 East Canfield Avenue, 48201, Detroit, Michigan

    Arturo A. Cid MD, Teresa Pietruk MD, Changiz Z. Bidari MD &  Murray N. Ehrinpreis MD

  3. the Veterans Administration Hospital, Allen Park, Michigan

    Arturo A. Cid MD, Teresa Pietruk MD, Changiz Z. Bidari MD &  Murray N. Ehrinpreis MD

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Cid, A.A., Pietruk, T., Bidari, C.Z. et al. Cecal fecaloma mimicking colonic neoplasm. Digest Dis Sci 26, 1134–1137 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01295981

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