Neurofibroma discharged from the anus with stool: A case report and review of literature
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Jia-Lian Zhu; Jian-Jiang Wang; Mu-Bin Wang; Yu Miao; Sheng-Qiang Cai; Zhi-Ming Chen
- Source
- World Journal of Clinical Cases
- Subject
- Abdominal pain
medicine.medical_specialty
Clinical presentation
Colonoscopy
Case Report
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Gastrointestinal tract
medicine
Neurofibroma
Neurofibromatosis
Isolated
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Sigmoid colon
General Medicine
medicine.disease
Anus
Dermatology
medicine.anatomical_structure
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
030211 gastroenterology & hepatology
medicine.symptom
business
Ileocecus
Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2b
- Language
- ISSN
- 2307-8960
Isolated neurofibromas that affect the gastrointestinal tract are rare and almost always manifest as neurofibromatosis type 1 or multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2b. In this paper, we present a case of a 24-year-old female with abdominal pain who discharged a neurofibroma in her stool without any blood on it. A colonoscopy showed multiple small polyps in the sigmoid colon and a nodule in the ileocecus. The pathology results and the immunohistochemical stains of the removed neoplasm from the ileocecus confirmed the diagnosis was a bowel neurofibroma. We report a rare case of ileocecal neurofibroma due to the patient’s affected gastrointestinal tract, without any associated systemic syndrome other than a neurofibroma discharged in the stool.