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Clinical Cases on Colorectal Cancer Emergency

2019

You have to manage in the emergency room a 75-year-old man with a medical history of pulmonary embolism 4 months ago and currently treated with warfarin. He has no history of abdominal surgery. He consults for diffuse abdominal pain, cessation of flatus and stools for 4 days, and fever of 38.7 °C and chills for 24 h. He vomited once 24 h ago. He also experienced asthenia and recent weight loss of 7 kg over the past 6 months not attributable to diet or exercise. He complains of progressively aggravating alternation of diarrhea and constipation for 3 months. He finally remembers that he noticed several times in the last months the presence of red blood in the stools, about which he did not wo…