Nihon Shokakibyo Gakkai Zasshi
March 2018
An 80-year-old man presented to our hospital with complaints of tarry stool and shortness of breath. A blood test confirmed marked anemia. On abdominal contrast-enhanced computed tomography, neither hemorrhagic lesions nor tumorous lesions could be pointed out.
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November 2015
We report the case of an 88-year-old woman with localized intestinal obstruction caused by a midgut neuroendocrine tumor (NET) without endocrine symptoms. She was referred to our hospital for lower abdominal pain. Abdominal enhanced computed tomography revealed a thickened wall in the terminal ileum with dilated small bowel and multiple hepatic metastases upstream.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe first case of obstructive colitis (OC) was observed in a 71-year-old man who presented to our hospital complaining of frank blood in the stool. After receiving a laxative for bowel preparation, he complained of lower abdominal pain. Colonoscopy revealed a circumferential tumor at the rectosigmoid junction.
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