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Rare disease
Squamous cell carcinoma in the small intestine
  1. Shazia Mumtaz1,
  2. Zubair Ahmad2,
  3. Saira Fatima2,
  4. Asim Qureshi1
  1. 1Department of Pathology, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
  2. 2Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
  1. Correspondence to Dr Asim Qureshi, asimq{at}skm.org.pk

Summary

Primary carcinomas of small intestine are rare, and most are adenocarcinomas. Duodenum is the commonest site. Primary squamous cell carcinomas are exceptional. Small intestine, however, is the commonest site for metastatic spread in the gastrointestinal tract. Both adeno and squamous cell carcinoma from a wide variety of sites can metastasise to the small intestine. The authors report a case of a squamous cell carcinoma arising in the ileum of a 65-year-old woman.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr.01.2011.3762

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