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Adenocarcinoma of the small intestine is uncommon. Due to this paucity and the lack of specificity of symptoms, patients are usually seen late in the course of their illness, when curative therapy, mainly represented by extensive surgical resection, is unlikely. The authors report a case of primary well-differentiated tubular adenocarcinoma (T4N0M0) arising in the duodenal limb of a reconstructed Billroth I gastroduodenostomy, 9 years after a distal gastrectomy for signet-ring cell carcinoma of the stomach (T4N0M0). Evidence for excluding the possibility of a recurrence of the primary gastric cancer was based on the different histologic pattern, the long disease-free interval, and other features of the second neoplasm. Relatively early diagnosis of the neoplasm, followed by curative surgical therapy was made possible by the early onset of the obstructive symptoms and the favorable anatomical location of the tumor.
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Koyama, S., Araki, M., Yuhara, K. et al. Primary tubular adenocarcinoma arising in the duodenal limb of reconstructed gastroduodenostomy for signet-ring cell carcinoma of the stomach. J Gastroenterol 30, 657–660 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02367794
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