Striking Discordance Between Morphological Residual Disease and Histological Pathological Complete Response: A Case Report of Pembrolizumab Treatment in Mismatch Repair-Deficient Colorectal Cancer With Liver Metastases

Kohei Ito, Kengo Shibata, Nobuki Ichikawa, Tadashi Yoshida, Akinobu Taketomi

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DOI: 10.7759/cureus.114704
Published: 2026-08-18
Container: Cureus
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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@article{allodium:10.7759/cureus.114704,
  title = {Striking Discordance Between Morphological Residual Disease and Histological Pathological Complete Response: A Case Report of Pembrolizumab Treatment in Mismatch Repair-Deficient Colorectal Cancer With Liver Metastases},
  author = {Kohei Ito and Kengo Shibata and Nobuki Ichikawa and Tadashi Yoshida and Akinobu Taketomi},
  year = {2026},
  journal = {Cureus},
  doi = {10.7759/cureus.114704},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.114704}
}

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TY  - JOUR
TI  - Striking Discordance Between Morphological Residual Disease and Histological Pathological Complete Response: A Case Report of Pembrolizumab Treatment in Mismatch Repair-Deficient Colorectal Cancer With Liver Metastases
AU  - Kohei Ito
AU  - Kengo Shibata
AU  - Nobuki Ichikawa
AU  - Tadashi Yoshida
AU  - Akinobu Taketomi
PY  - 2026
JO  - Cureus
DO  - 10.7759/cureus.114704
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.114704
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Ito, K., Shibata, K., Ichikawa, N., Yoshida, T., & Taketomi, A. (2026). Striking Discordance Between Morphological Residual Disease and Histological Pathological Complete Response: A Case Report of Pembrolizumab Treatment in Mismatch Repair-Deficient Colorectal Cancer With Liver Metastases. Cureus. https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.114704

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