Carcinoma of the duodenum

Carcinoma of the duodenum.

We report two patients with primary adenocarcinoma of the duodenum who underwent successful pancreatico-duodenectomy (modified Whipple operation). One patient died from an unrelated cause three years following surgery whilst the other remains well and clinically free of disease 3 years after resection. An aggressive surgical policy in patients with this rare tumour seems justified.

Carcinoma of the duodenum.

Ewing (1931) states that the incidence of malignant tumours of the small intestine is 3% of neoplasms of the gastrointestinal tract. Shallow, Eger, and Carty (1944) reported the incidence of primary carcinoma of the duodenum in a study of 350,286 necropsies as 003%; the duodenum is affected in 45.6% of cases of small intestinal neoplasms. In this series care was taken to exclude undifferentiate...

Sarcomatoid carcinoma of the duodenum.

Pure Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Duodenum

Primary carcinomas of the small intestine are extremely rare neoplasms. Most of these are adenocarcinomas. Primary squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of small intestine is exceptionally rare with only occasional case reports in the literature. We report here a surgically treated patient with squamous cell carcinoma arising from duodenal diverticula in the third part of the duodenum.

Carcinoma in the fourth part of the duodenum.

From the Department of Surgery, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University, Manipal, Karnataka, India C ancer of the small intestine makes up 2% of all malignant tumours of the gastrointestinal tract, with 40% of them being adenocarcinomas. Of these adenocarcinomas of the small intestine, 45%–55% lie within the duodenum. Because the condition is rare, specific signs and symptoms are lacking. ...