Small Bowel Adenocarcinoma

Adenocarcinoma of Small Bowel

Small bowel cancer is one of the rarest cancers in the gastrointestinal tract. The diagnosis is usually late and most patients presented with the advanced stage. Because of this rarity, there is limited data when making decisions for treatment and biological behavior. Most forms of the cancer occur in the duodenum with surgery being the treatment of choice if the cancer is operable. Chemotherap...

Adenocarcinoma of the small bowel

Comprising about 2 % of all gastrointestinal malignancies, malignant tumors of the small bowel are relatively rare 1, adenocarcinomas being the most frequent among them. Their peak incidence, slightly higher in males than in females, is in the 7 th decade.2 More often they are found in the jejunum or duodenum. In the jejunum, adenocarcinomas are usually located within the first 30 cm distally o...

Small bowel adenocarcinoma. Two case reports.

Introduction. Small bowel adenocarcinoma is a rare tumor, with a still not well studied tumorigenesis process, and non-specific symptoms that cause a delay in the diagnosis and consequently a worst outcome for the patient. Videocapsule endoscopy (VCE) and double-balloon enteroscopy (DBE) have revolutionized the diagnosis and management of patients with small bowel diseases. Surgery is the treat...

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

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...