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That dyspepsia in the young could be cancer

Malignant tumour of the stomach is not common in young adults. When it does occur, it is associated with a high morbidity and mortality. The objective of this report is to document our experience with three cases of gastric adenocarcinoma in young adult Nigerians seen over a period of 18 months in o...

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Autores principales: Olokoba, Abdulfatai B., Obateru, Olusegun A., Bojuwoye, Mathew O., Ibrahim, Olatunde K., Olokoba, Lateefat B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3687867/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23798802
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0300-1652.110053
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description Malignant tumour of the stomach is not common in young adults. When it does occur, it is associated with a high morbidity and mortality. The objective of this report is to document our experience with three cases of gastric adenocarcinoma in young adult Nigerians seen over a period of 18 months in our centre.
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spelling pubmed-36878672013-06-24 That dyspepsia in the young could be cancer Olokoba, Abdulfatai B. Obateru, Olusegun A. Bojuwoye, Mathew O. Ibrahim, Olatunde K. Olokoba, Lateefat B. Niger Med J Case Report Malignant tumour of the stomach is not common in young adults. When it does occur, it is associated with a high morbidity and mortality. The objective of this report is to document our experience with three cases of gastric adenocarcinoma in young adult Nigerians seen over a period of 18 months in our centre. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3687867/ /pubmed/23798802 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0300-1652.110053 Text en Copyright: © Nigerian Medical Journal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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