Synchronous tumors are well documented in the gastrointestinal tract. Various combinations have been studied. There are a few studies, which highlight the incidental finding of the yellow beauty-the "carcinoid" of the duodenum simultaneously occurring with the venomous "diffuse gastric adenocarcinoma". This is a report one such case in a 58 year-old man, who unfortunately died on the 4th postoperative day due to cardiopulmonary arrest.
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We present a case involving a 67-year-old patient with a medical history of gastric bypass who was recently diagnosed with a 6-centimeter duodenal mass causing biliary duct stenosis. Despite our best efforts, we were unable to access this tumor endoscopically, necessitating surgical intervention. During the surgical exploration, we discovered a duodenal diverticulum filled with stones, leading to the obstruction of the biliary ductâ?"a manifestation of Lemmel syndrome.
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January 2022
Department of Family Medicine, Kosin University Gospel Hospital, Busan, Korea.
Background: This study evaluated the prevalence of Helicobacter pylori infection and the risk factors associated with H. pylori transmission among spouses.
Methods: We assessed the spousal concurrence of H.
Diagn Cytopathol
February 2021
Center of Intervention Endoscopy, Advent Health Orlando, Orlando, Florida, USA.
The identification of two cell populations displaying different cytologic characteristics in the same fine needle aspiration (FNA), one with an epithelioid appearance and the other spindle cell morphology, is an extremely rare phenomenon and potentially represents a source of diagnostic confusion. Depending on the lineage and relationship of the two cell types, the differential diagnosis is broad and encompasses a wide spectrum of entities. The current case describes the presence of nests and clusters of neuroendocrine cells associated with rare spindle cell fragments of gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) in the same fine needle aspiration of a duodenal mass.
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September 2018
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Lima, Perú; Servicio de Gastroenterología, Hospital Nacional Daniel Alcides Carrión. Callao, Perú; Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia. Lima, Perú.
Introduction: Lymphocytic colitis and microscopic enteritis are relatively common causes of chronic diarrhea and it is characterized by an intraepithelial lymphocytic infiltrate. There have been no previous reports of coexistence between these 2 pathologies.
Objective: To describe histological and clinical characteristic in patients with coexistence of lymphocytic colitis and microscopic enteritis.
BMC Gastroenterol
January 2018
Division of Microbiology, P D Hinduja Hospital, Mumbai, India.
Background: The gastric microbiota has recently been implicated in the causation of organic/structural gastroduodenal diseases (gastric and duodenal ulcers, gastric cancer) in patients with Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection. We aimed to ascertain, in patients harbouring H.
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