Nasal and systemic eosinophilia associated with solid intestinal tumors, a case report and review of the literature
Arturo Armone Caruso 1, Franco Costigliola 2, Josephine Salzano 1, Salvatore Del Prete 3, Daniela Marasco 3, Clara Imperatore 4, Donato Alessandro Telesca 5, Luigi Sivero 5
Affiliations
Article Info
1 ENT Department, AIAS Structure of Afragola, Afragola, Italy
2 MMG ASL NA2NORD, Pozzuoli, Naples, Italy
3 ENT Medicines, University of Study of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Caserta, Italy
4 Outpatient Specialist in Allergology and Clinical Immunology ASL NAPOLI 1 CENTRO, U.O., Naples, Italy
5 Department of Gastroenterology, Endocrinology, Endoscopic Surgery, University “Federico II” of Naples, Naples, Italy
Abstract
The authors report the study of a clinical case, which presented eosinophilia both in the secretion of the nasal mucosa and in the blood count. After a careful examination of all the pathologies related to hypereosinophilia, through a clinical study, they have documented the presence of an adenocarcinoma located in the ileocecal junction of the colon. From what has been documented it is clear that only a clinical observation of precision, carried out above all through nasal cytology and colonoscopy, is able to diagnose an important pathology, such as oncology. For the literature review we used the Scopus and PubMed search engines to analyze other authors who were interested in the relationship between eosinophilia and colorectal cancer. Much of the studies analyzed reported a close relationship between the presence of tissue eosinophilia and tumor, and the prognosis of colorectal cancer.
Keywords
- Colorectal cancer
- Eosinophils
- Hypereosinophilia