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We report 10 carcinomas in 8 patients with regional enteritis. Five of the cancers were in the ileum, 4 in the right colon, and 1 in the rectum. The visualized small bowel cancers appeared as benign strictures in small bowel involved by regional enteritis. Most were poorly differentiated. The colon cancers had a more typical radiographic appearance of malignancy. In some patients with small bowel cancer the malignancy was discovered only on histologic evaluation; the malignant nature of the lesion was not appreciated by radiography or gross examination at surgery.
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Miller, T.L., Skucas, J., Gudex, D. et al. Bowel cancer characteristics in patients with regional enteritis. Gastrointest Radiol 12, 45–52 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01885102
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