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THOMAS C. CASE, M.D.; CHARLES A. RIBAUDO, M.D.; GEORGE O. HALSTED

AMA Arch Surg. 1958;77(1):123-129.

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Reticulum-cell sarcoma is probably the most infrequent malignant lesion to be found in the duodenum. Since the original description of carcinoma of the duodenum by Hamberger,¹ in 1746, numerous publications have appeared, many being of a single case, and the total and long experience of a single institution has not exceeded 31 cases.

A review of the world literature by Brenner and Brown,² in 1955, resulted in the collection of only 474 cases of carcinoma. Kleinerman and co-workers³ estimated the incidence of duodenal carcinoma found at necropsy to be 0.035%, based upon a collected series of 487,695 postmortem examinations. Other malignant lesions of the duodenum are also extremely rare, and these include lymphosarcoma, leiomyosarcoma, and carcinoids. In a series of 17 primary malignant lesions reported by Ochsner and Kleckner⁴ that had been collected over a period of 20 years, only one reticulum-cell sarcoma was included. In . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
New York

From the Department of Surgery, St. Vincent's Hospital.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Dec. 19, 1957.

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