Eosinofilia de causa pouco comum

Authors

  • Augusto Barros Centro Hospitalar do Funchal, Funchal, Portugal
  • João José Centro Hospitalar do Funchal, Funchal, Portugal
  • Luís Freitas Centro Hospitalar do Funchal, Funchal, Portugal
  • Caldeira Ferreira Centro Hospitalar do Funchal, Funchal, Portugal
  • Edward Maul Centro Hospitalar do Funchal, Funchal, Portugal
  • Fernando Drummond Borges Centro Hospitalar do Funchal, Funchal, Portugal

Keywords:

eosinophilia, neoplasms, parasitic diseases

Abstract

Blood eosinophilia is an uncommon manifesta­tion of solid tumors. The authors report a case of a previously healthy 78-year-old white mate, admitted to our department with a two week his­tory of fatigue, weakness, anorexia, weight loss, fever, night sweating and hepatomegaly. The leu­kocyte count was 111700/mm3 with 58830/mm3 eosinophils. Abdominal ultrasound and compute­rized tomography scan showed a hepatic mass with8x 7 cm. Guided percutaneous needle biopsy of the tiver showed metastasis of adenocarcinoma of unk­nown origin. Flexible colonoscopy showed a steno­sing lesion of the mid-portion ofthe transverse co­lon and biopsy revealed a well differentiatedade­ nocarcinoma of the colon. A review of the literatu­re reports only two cases of colon cancer with more then 30000 eosinophils/mm3.

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1995-09-29

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Barros A, José J, Freitas L, Ferreira C, Maul E, Drummond Borges F. Eosinofilia de causa pouco comum. RPMI [Internet]. 1995 Sep. 29 [cited 2024 Nov. 22];2(3):172-6. Available from: https://revista.spmi.pt/index.php/rpmi/article/view/2397

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Vol. 2 No. 3 (1995): Julho/ Setembro

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Case Reports

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