All issues > Volume 26(4); 1983

Case Report

J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1983;26(4):397-401. Published online April 30, 1983.

A Case of Primary Mucinous Adinocarcinoma (Colloid) of Colon in Children.

Kyoung Nam Kim¹, Won Ik Lee¹, Sung Chul Son¹, Poong Man Lee¹

¹Department of Pediatrics, Catholic Medical College, Seoul，Korea

Abstract

Carcinoma of the colon in childhood has remained extremely rare, and especially, primary carcinoma of colon was often escapes early diagnosis because of a lack of awarenss of its occurrence in pediatric age group. Recently we experienced a case of mucinous adenocarcinoma (Colloid carcinoma) of descending colon without predisposing conditions which may increased the risk of development of colorectal cancer in 13 years old boy. This report presents previous unreported case in Korea and a brief review of the related literature is given.,

Keywords :adenocarcinoma of colon; colloid carcinoma.