MALIGNANT TUMORS OF THE DUODENUM
- 1 March 1951
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in A.M.A. Archives of Internal Medicine
- Vol. 87 (3) , 410-417
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1951.03810030083007
Abstract
ARITY of primary carcinoma of the duodenum has long been emphasized. Like the fallopian tubes and spleen, this viscus enjoys only a relative immunity from involvement with primary carcinoma. The more recent studies1 suggest a higher incidence than is generally realized. In a combined series1f numbering 483,695 autopsies, primary carcinoma of the duodenum was found to be present in 0.035 per cent. Three per cent of all carcinoma occurs in the small intestine, and of this number about half are found in the duodenum (45.6 per cent). To date 483 well documented cases of primary carcinoma of the duodenum have been recorded.1f This figure represents a well screened series in that the not infrequent vaterian and pancreatic carcinoma which so commonly mimic duodenal carcinoma have been carefully excluded. Sarcoma of the duodenum is extremely rare, its incidence being about 0.003 per cent, or one-tenth that of primaryThis publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: