In patients with malignancy who receive aflibercept based chemotherapy, gastrointestinal perforation is among the reported adverse events with a prevalence of 1.9%. This complication may lead to mortality up to 10.8%. We here report a case of small bowel perforation that occurred fifteen days after the first cycle of aflibercept in a 58-year old female who had metachronous colorectal liver meta...

Fungal infections of the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) are not rare, but get missed due to their misleading clinical features. Here we report three GIT fungal at different locations with varied symptoms. We received surgical resection specimens suspicion malignancy for all. The first was a case Aspergillosis, an uncommon site, esophageal, in 60year diabetic male carcinoma view presence dysphagia...

Cronkhite-Canada syndrome (CCS) is a rare non-familial disorder with multiple gastrointestinal polyps and ectodermal changes. Adenomatous and carcinomatous changes have been reported. Video capsule endoscopy is a useful non-invasive tool to reveal polypoid lesions of the gastrointestinal tract suspicious for malignancy. We report a case of a patient with CCS with excessively elongated intestina...

Incidence of gastrointestinal malignancy is gradually increasing. The aim of the study is to investigate age, sex and relative frequencies of various gastrointestinal malignancies diagnosed between January 2007 and December 2014 in the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital, and in a Private Specialist Laboratory, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. All histological-diagnosed cases of gastrointestinal ...

OBJECTIVE Identify and establish risk factors associated with mortality secondary to upper gastrointestinal bleeding up to 30 days after the episode, at the Hospital Nacional Cayetano Heredia. MATERIAL AND METHODS A retrospective analytic observational case-control study was made with a case: control proportion of 1:3, analyzing 180 patient from which 135 were the controls and 45 the cases. I...

(a) Molecularly-targeted drug treatment in 52 patients Molecular target drug n=52 Underlying malignancy Other drugs* 5(9.6) Malignancy 5 Note.—Numbers of the data are numbers of patients, with percentages in parentheses. emtansine for the treatment of colon cancer, lymphoma, lung cancer, multiple myeloma, and breast cancer, respectively. GIST = gastrointestinal stromal tumor, CML = chronic myel...

Sister Mary Joseph Nodule refers to an umbilical nodule resulting from metastasis from an intra-abdominal malignancy, either pelvic (common in females), or gastrointestinal system (common in males). We report a case of Sister Mary Joseph Nodule in a lady which resulted from gastric malignancy.

INTRODUCTION Lipoma is a benign tumor of adipose tissue, the most common tumor of the human body soft tissues. As such, it can be found almost anywhere in the human body including the gastrointestinal system (incidence below 0.5%), but rarely in the sigmoid colon. CASE REPORT This is a case report on symptomatic polyp of the sigmoid colon, which after one year, at control colonoscopy, caused ...