Intestinal Ganglioneuroma Mimicking Cecum Cancer

Ganglioneuroma is a rare, slow-growing, benign, neurogenic tumor that often originates from sympathetic ganglion cells and rarely from the adrenal medulla, sympathetic nerves and peripheral nerves. Mediastinum and retroperitoneum are the most common locations, but they can be seen in any part of the gastrointestinal system. The patient, who applied to our clinic with abdominal pain and had two hypodense lesions in the liver and pulmonary nodules in the lung, which caused invagination at the terminal ileum-ileocecal valve level as a result of advanced examinations, was performed right colectomy and histopathological diagnosis was reported as ganglioneuroma.

Author(s): Sami Benla A

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