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16555630

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-3-24
pubmed:abstractText
We diagnosed colonic cancer using low serum ferritin levels as a clue in two patients with cardiac or cardiopulmonary disease. In the course of the follow-up, the serum ferritin levels decreased to less than 18 ng/mL without significant appearance of iron-deficiency anemia. One patient showed positive immunological fecal occult blood test results whereas the other not. Both patients rejected further colonoscopy because of their concern for stress in relation to their cardiac or cardiopulmonary diseases, but instead agreed to positron emission computed tomography (PET) using a F-18 deoxyglucose at their own expense. In both patients, PET documented abnormal tracer accumulation in the colon. From the results of PET imaging, they eventually agreed to colonoscopy. A colonic adenocarcinoma was detected at the site of the positive PET finding in each patient. Both patients underwent curative resection of the cancer. The detection of the levels of serum ferritin may be available for the screening colonic cancer in patients declining colonoscopic examination.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0016-2590
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
51
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
95-104
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2005
pubmed:articleTitle
Low serum ferritin levels as a clue to colonic cancer detection in two patients with coronary artery disease: a case report.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Internal Medicine I, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, 960-1295, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports