Carcinosarcoma of the Rectum: Report of a Rare Colorectal Malignancy and Review of the Literature

Table 1

Patient characteristics of previous case reports of rectal carcinosarcoma.

Study	Age/sex	Metastasis	LN involvement	Adjuvant Rx	Survival
Roncaroli	71/F	N	Y	Pre-op RT	6 months
Takeyoshi	82/M	Skin			6 months
Tsekouras	60/M	Local recurrence, pulmonary + hepatic metastasis	Y	Post-op chemo/RT	6 months
Kolodziejczak	83/M	None	N	None	5 weeks
Present case	80/F	Local recurrence, pulmonary	N	Pre-op RT	25 months