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DELAYED DIAGNOSIS OF CARCINOMA OF THE RECTUM AND SIGMOID
Author(s) -
HUGHES E. S. R.,
MCDERMOTT F. T.,
MASTERTON J. P.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1979.tb05833.x
Subject(s) - medicine , rectum , sigmoid function , sigmoid colon , carcinoma , radiological weapon , disease , radiology , general surgery , surgery , machine learning , artificial neural network , computer science
In a large series of patients with carcinoma of the sigmoid colon and rectum there was a delay in diagnosis due to misinterpretation of the physical signs in 36 cases (2.3%). The causes of the misdiagnosis were haemorrhoids, radiological misinterpretation, and chronic inflammatory disease. A miscellaneous variety completed the series. A study of the survival of those patients in whom there was a delay in diagnosis shows that it is most unlikely that it actually affected adversely the prognosis of these patients.