Items tagged “small bowel tumors”
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Inflammatory fibroid polyp - gastrointestinal tract
Inflammatory fibroid polyps (IFP's) are rare, benign lesions of the gastrointestinal tract, most commonly affecting the gastric antrum, followed by small bowel, and large bowel 1. Rarely it occurs in rectum, oesophagus or gall bladder 1.
Epidemiology
The tumour is most commonly found in in pat...
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Small bowel leiomyoma
Leiomyoma of the small bowel is an uncommon mesenchymal tumour. They occur most frequently in the jejunum 1.
Clinical presentation
May present with abdominal pain, haemorrhage and anaemia secondary to ulceration and bleeding, though many are indolent 2.
Radiographic features
CT
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