A Case of Primary Small Bowel Cancer Diagnosed Before an Operation

Report of an interesting case of small bowel duplication [Persian]

  A 13 years old boy with severe abdominal pain and history of intermittent (II bleeding since the aye of 3 months, is presented. Different diagnostic procedures were unremarkable. A Tc-99m Pertechnetate abdominal study revealed abnormal radionuclide accumulation in small bowel region. Duplication of small bowel was suspected which was confirmed by surgery and patholo...

Practical Lessons from the Small Bowel Bleeding Lesions: A Case Report on Small Bowel Cavernous Hemangioma

A Case of Primary Small Bowel Melanoma Diagnosed by Single-Balloon Enteroscopy

Although metastasis from cutaneous malignant melanoma to the small intestine is not uncommon, primary small bowel melanoma (SBM) is extremely rare. This case report describes a rare case of primary SBM, diagnosed by single-balloon enteroscopy. A 74-year-old man presented with recurrent melena. Upper endoscopy and colonoscopy were unremarkable. Abdominal computed tomography (CT) revealed an ilea...

Primary Fallopian Tube Cancer: An Unusual Case of Inguinal Lymphadenopathy

Background: Primary fallopian tube cancers (PFTCs) are rare gynecological malignancies by the prevalence of 0.3-1%. The PFTCs occur in individuals within the age range of 18-88 years, more specifically at the age range of 40-65 years with the mean age of 55 years. The PFTC usually is observed with the chronic inflammation of the fallopian tube, infertility, tuberculous salpingi...

A rare case of primary small bowel adenocarcinoma with intussusception.

Other than in childhood, intussusception is unusual and nearly always caused by a structural and well demonstrable lesion. In contrast with the colon tract, the incidence of primary malignancies in the small bowel is very low. We report the case of a 51-year-old man presenting with jejunal intussusception due to a primary adenocarcinoma. To our knowledge, only a few similar cases have been repo...