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Small bowel obstruction secondary to cecal tumor

Case contributed by Jeremy Jones
Diagnosis certain

Presentation

Nausea/vomiting. Right iliac fossa mass.

  • Note: This case has been tagged as "legacy" as it no longer meets image preparation and/or other case publication guidelines.

Small bowel obstruction with multiple dilated loops of small bowel. The cause was noted as a large cecal mass which infiltrates the terminal ileum, with multiple enlarged regional pericolic lymph nodes.

Case Discussion

The cecal mass was confirmed on biopsy as carcinoma.

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