Small bowel adenocarcinoma incarcerated within an inguinal hernia

Abstract Background Small bowel adenocarcinomas are rare malignant tumors that account for less than 2% of gastrointestinal malignancies. In addition, tumor incarceration in an inguinal hernia is also rare entity. We herein report a first case of small bowel adenocarcinoma incarcerated within an ing...

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Main Authors: Hironari Kawai, Koichiro Haruki, Naoki Takada, Toshio Iino, Masahiro Ikegami, Katsuhiko Yanaga
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-12-01
Series:Surgical Case Reports
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40792-019-0765-8