Complete small bowel obstruction caused by metastasis from primary nasopharyngeal carcinoma

We here report the first case in the literature on a surgical emergency of complete small bowel obstruction caused by metastasis from nasopharyngeal carcinoma nine months after the primary tumor was treated with concurrent chemoradiation. The patient achieved prolonged survival with prompt surgical...

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Autores principales: Lau, Chi Pan, Hui, Edwin Pun, Chan, Anthony Tak-Cheung
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PAGEPress Publications 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2994435/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21139901
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/rt.2009.e7
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spelling pubmed-29944352010-12-07 Complete small bowel obstruction caused by metastasis from primary nasopharyngeal carcinoma Lau, Chi Pan Hui, Edwin Pun Chan, Anthony Tak-Cheung Rare Tumors Case Report We here report the first case in the literature on a surgical emergency of complete small bowel obstruction caused by metastasis from nasopharyngeal carcinoma nine months after the primary tumor was treated with concurrent chemoradiation. The patient achieved prolonged survival with prompt surgical treatment followed by systemic chemotherapy. PAGEPress Publications 2009-07-22 /pmc/articles/PMC2994435/ /pubmed/21139901 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/rt.2009.e7 Text en ©Copyright C.P. Lau et al., 2009 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (by-nc 3.0)
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Complete small bowel obstruction caused by metastasis from primary nasopharyngeal carcinoma
title Complete small bowel obstruction caused by metastasis from primary nasopharyngeal carcinoma
title_full Complete small bowel obstruction caused by metastasis from primary nasopharyngeal carcinoma
title_fullStr Complete small bowel obstruction caused by metastasis from primary nasopharyngeal carcinoma
title_full_unstemmed Complete small bowel obstruction caused by metastasis from primary nasopharyngeal carcinoma
title_short Complete small bowel obstruction caused by metastasis from primary nasopharyngeal carcinoma
title_sort complete small bowel obstruction caused by metastasis from primary nasopharyngeal carcinoma
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2994435/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21139901
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/rt.2009.e7
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