Tumors of the Small Intestine

Abstract
NEOPLASMS of the small intestine are uncommon. Although many individual case reports or studies of a specific tumor or tumor site have been published, comprehensive reviews have usually been derived, either partially or completely, from autopsy material. Relatively few papers have considered tumors of the small intestine purely from a clinical perspective.Though neoplasms of the small bowel were described in the literature as long ago as 1824, according to Pridgen, Mayo and Dockerty,1 little interest in this subject was apparent until the report of Rankin and Mayo2 appeared in 1930 and that of Raiford3 in 1932. In 1934 Sowles . . .

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