Exam questionKROK 2Medicine · 2009
A 54-year-old male patient complains about permanent dull pain in the mesogastral region, weight loss, dark blood admixtures in the feces, constipations. He put off 10 kg within a year. In blood: erythrocytes: 3,5• 1012/l, Hb- 87 g/l, leukocytes - 12,6 × 109/l, stab neutrophil shift, ESR - 43 mm/h. What is the most probable diagnosis?
Answer options
- Chronic colitis
- Stomach cancer
- Chronic pancreatitis
- Cancer of transverse colon
- Gastric ulcer
Correct answer
Cancer of transverse colon
Explanation
The Mesogastral region is the middle portion of the stomach transverse colon located in that region. Weight loss and bleeding is an alarm sign of cancer. Elder patients are more vulnerable to have cancer.
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