A case of carcinoma of the ileum with unusual symptoms / by Anthony Bassler and J. Prescott Grant.

  • Bassler, Anthony, 1874-
Date:
1911
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Credit: A case of carcinoma of the ileum with unusual symptoms / by Anthony Bassler and J. Prescott Grant. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    3 A CASE OF CARCINOMA OF THE ILEUM WITH UNUSUAL SYMPTOMS. By Anthony Bassler, M. D., New York, Visiting Gastroenterologist to the People’s Hospital; Visiting Gastro- enterologist to the St. Mark’s Clinic; etc., and J. Prescott Grant, M. D., New York, Visiting Surgeon to the People’s Hospital; Chief Surgeon to. the Clinic of the Cornell Dispensary; etc. According to reliable statistics, cancer of the large and small intestine occurs in about fourteen per cent, of all carcinoma cases. In these about eighty per cent, are primary in the rectum, fifteen per cent, in the large intestine, and five per cent, in the small. Of the latter, those of the ileum occur about twice as often as in the duodenum, while carcinoma of the jejunum is most rare. The report of a recent case under our observa- tion is of interest for the following reasons: i. Whether an attack of typhoid fever (the ulceration in which is mostly in the ileum) may have had to do with the u:velopment of carcinoma at some lo- cal site of cicatrix formation of the healed typhoid ulcer; 2, the fact that there had been no vomiting in the course of the cancer growth, same being of possibly eighteen months’ duration, this being par- ticularly of interest when the degree of peristalsis present in the case so strongly suggested a marked stenosis in the small intestine, and the fact that the first vomiting spell was fsecal in type; 3, the marked degree of visible peristalsis which could be traced from the ileum up and which required the addi- Copyright, 1911, by A. R. Elliott Publishing Company.