[Primary lymphoma of the small intestine. A clinical case report and review of the literature].
The authors present a case of small bowel primitive lymphoma found in a 66-years-old female. After having briefly reviewed the literature they direct their attention to the clinical-instrumental diagnostic difficulties of this neoplasm which is often discovered only when it has already invaded various organs. Therefore surgical therapy is not always radical. This fact in addition to the fatally rapid postoperative course led the authors to discuss the problems involved in a correct treatment of this pathology.
Bonaccorso
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Istituto di I Clinica Chirurgica Generale e Terapia Chirurgica, Università degli Studi, Catania.
Cimbali
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P
Faraci
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C
Cammisuli
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F
Minutolo
V
V
Cavallaro
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V
D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007414:Intestinal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D007421:Intestine, Small / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D015451:Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery