Intestinal lymphangitis carcinomatosa related to ovarian cancer: Case report and review of the literature

• Main Authors: Ricardo Pedrini Cruz (Author), Gustavo Peretti Rodini (Author), Margarete Duarte da Rosa (Author), Vinicius Duarte Cabral (Author), Eduardo Cambruzzi (Author), Gabriella Ferrandina (Author), Reitan Ribeiro (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2020-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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We present a 57-year-old woman with ovarian cancer that presented to the Emergency Room with a proximal small bowel obstruction. Exploratory laparotomy evidenced a thickened 10 cm extension of the proximal jejunum without bowel peristalsis, with stenotic enteric lumen, with a lesion apparently origi...