Intestinal lymphangitis carcinomatosa related to ovarian cancer: Case report and review of the literature

We present a 57-year-old woman with ovarian cancer that presented to the Emergency Room with a proximal small bowel obstruction. Exploratory laparotomy evidenced a thickened 10 cm extension of the proximal jejunum without bowel peristalsis, with stenotic enteric lumen, with a lesion apparently origi...

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Main Authors: Ricardo Pedrini Cruz, Gustavo Peretti Rodini, Margarete Duarte da Rosa, Vinicius Duarte Cabral, Eduardo Cambruzzi, Gabriella Ferrandina, Reitan Ribeiro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-08-01
Series:Gynecologic Oncology Reports
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352578920300722