title: Case report: a case of primary ileal carcinoma in a young woman and a review of the Japanese literature.
abstract: We report a case of primary ileal carcinoma in a young woman, which was diagnosed definitively before operation. A 29-year-old woman presented with abdominal pain, diarrhoea and bloody stools. Colonoscopic and radiographic studies revealed that there was a 7.5 x 7 cm tumour (well-differentiated adenocarcinoma) at the terminal ileum, forming an ulcerated lesion at the centre. The tumour had invaded the caecum, the right urinary tract, the right ovary and a portion of the sigmoid colon. Fifty-three cases of primary ileal carcinoma were reported in Japan between 1982 and 1994 and their clinical features are reviewed herein.
authors.affiliation: Second Department of Internal Medicine, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Horiuchi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Akamatsu
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Mukawa
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ochi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kiyosawa
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sugiyama
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Katsuyama
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000601:surgery; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007078:Ileal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000601:surgery; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology