[Errors and difficulties in diagnosing malignant tumors of the small intestine].
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Intestinal tumors were induced in male rats by dimethylhydrazine (14 mg/kg body weight subcutaneously once a week during 20 weeks). Part of animals received clofibrat per os in a dose of 25 mg a day 5 times a week. Clofibrat did not influence the frequency of the development of intestinal tumors but significantly decreased the number of medium-size and large tumors. The possible mechanisms of clofibrat action as well as the use of clofibrat and some related agents in oncology are discussed.
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The malignant non-Hodgkin-lymphoma is the main cause of spontaneous extraduodenal small intestine perforation. This rare incidence occurs as a consequence of an enteropathic associated affection manifested extranodally, mostly in the higher part of the jejunum. The diagnosis is made after a spontaneous perforation. The risk of a recurrent perforation is high. In a female patient we made the diagnosis not before resecting the small intestine.
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Among 390 patients who were operated on in the Research Institute of Proctology for the proliferative form of diffuse polyposis, 242 underwent various types of operations in which polyp-free segments of the large intestine were not resected. In the first 5 postoperative years all 242 patients were examined, in follow-up periods of 6 to 10 years 144 patients (59.5%), in periods of 11 to 15 years 88 patients (36.4%), in periods of 16 to 20 years 28 patients (11.6%), and after 21 years 8 patients (3.3%) were examined. Development of carcinoma in the preserved segments was encountered in 26 patients (10.7%), and intensive growth of polyps for which the preserved segment had to be removed was found in 5 patients (2.1%). There was no significant increase of the risk of carcinoma development in the preserved intestinal segments in patients who previously had a malignant tumor in the resected part of the large intestine. The development of carcinoma and intensive growth of polyps were encountered most frequently in patients in whom the distal parts of the large intestine were not removed during the operation. The obtained data are evidence of the validity of the choice of the volume of the operation based on the endeavor to preserve the polyp-free parts of the large intestine for rehabilitation of the patients.
One hundred patients were examined in periods of one to 30 years after subtotal resection of the large intestine with the formation of an ileorectal or ileo-sigmoid anastomosis for diffuse polyposis with prevalence of proliferative processes. A malignant tumor developed in the preserved distal parts of the large intestine during this period in 19 (19%) persons. Such factors as the sex, age, duration of the postoperative follow-up period, the presence of a malignant tumor in the removed part, and the length of the functioning segment of the large intestine had no essential effect on the frequency of carcinoma. The presence of any number of polyps in the remaining part of the large intestine at the moment of the surgical intervention was the principal precondition for carcinoma development. The absence of polyps in it is a favorable factor for the survival of the operated on patients; in none of them did a malignant tumor develop in the preserved segment of the large intestine.
Primary malignant tumors of the small bowel are a heterogeneous group of tumors and are uncommon compared to tumors in other locations of the gastrointestinal tract. These tumors have been traditionally associated with a poor prognosis. The charts of 53 patients with primary malignant small bowel tumors at major Eastern Virginia Medical School teaching hospitals were retrospectively reviewed. Patient characteristics and presenting symptoms and signs were nonspecific. No single radiographic or endoscopic procedure was performed on every patient, and the diagnosis was suspected preoperatively in only 50 per cent of the patients. Tumors were most common in the ileum, and the most common histologic types were adenocarcinoma (53 per cent) and carcinoid (32 per cent). In univariate analysis, factors determining survival included histologic type, location of tumor, and stage. There was also a trend toward worse survival in patients receiving chemotherapy or radiation therapy, possibly due to patient selection factors. In multivariate analysis, only histology and stage significantly influenced survival. The overall 10-year survival of the entire group was 44 per cent. Small bowel tumors have a variable prognosis. A high index of suspicion and more frequent use of enteroclysis may lead to earlier detection and improved survival.
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Condition was studied of the system lipid peroxidation-antioxidants in 243 patients with carcinoma of the stomach and large intestine and 39 patients with non-malignant diseases. No relationship was found between the studied parameters and age, sex of the oncological patients, location and histological structure of the tumour. During different stages, different dysbalance of components of the system was being formed but there was no strong correlation between content and a particular stage. Three types of functioning of the antioxidants system were identified in oncological patients, such as relative compensation, overstrain and depletion. Postoperative changes in the system were determined by its baseline condition and volume of surgical supplies and involved the overstrain and depletion type adequate and inadequate shifts. Suppuration type complications were more commonly seen amongst those subjects demonstrating the baseline overstrain or depletion of the antioxidant system or where there is an inadequate reaction of the above system to the surgical operation-associated stress.
Leiomyosarcomas of the small intestine are rare lesions. Because of their aspecific symptoms, diagnosis is often made at a late stage and, in women, must be distinguished from ovarian tumors. Three cases of large, abdominal masses, evaluated preoperatively as being ovarian tumors, are presented. At histology all three were diagnosed as leiomyosarcomas of the small intestine.
Leiomyosarcomas of the small intestine were found in dogs during experimental induction of gastric carcinoma by oral administration of N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (MNNG). Leiomyosarcomas were found most frequenly in the duodenum and jejunum, and occasionally in the stomach but never in the ileum, colon, or rectum. The leiomyosarcomas developed in all the dogs given 50 mug/ml of MNNG in deionized water to drink but not in dogs fed on porridge food made from standard pellet diet mashed with MNNG at the same concentration in tap water. Intestinal sarcomas developed in 3 months to 5 years after the end of MNNG administration, and frequently metastasized to the liver and/or the peritoneum.
The radiological workup of 15 patients with a carcinoid has been evaluated. As 7 of the 15 patients presented for emergency operation, only the remaining 8 had barium studies (7 barium meals and 1 barium enema). Two of the barium meals were even retrospectively, entirely negative. In two others, initially the diagnosis was missed despite radiological signs, which had been overlooked on follow-up films. Fluoroscopic examination of the small bowel would probably have ensured the detection of the lesion. At the time of diagnosis nine tenth of the tumours were already infiltrating and more than half of them metastasizing. The presence of the carcinoid syndrome implies the production of the causative hormones in the liver or the pulmonary circulation. In order to find the primary intestinal carcinoid in a cureable stage- that is, before it has metastasized-, all patients with diarrhoea and repeated bouts of abdominal pain should have a careful follow-up examination of the small bowel. This examination must include fluoroscopies.
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Primary malignant tumors of the small intestine are uncommon. This infrequency and possible lack of awareness can result in a late diagnosis and a poor survival time. In a period of 34 years, only 55 patients were seen at our cancer institute. The average age of the patients was 56 years, with a male predominance ratio of 2.6:1.0. Twenty-one patients had adenocarcinomas, 19 had sarcomas and 15 had carcinoids. The most common signs and symptoms were abdominal pain and obstruction of the intestine. Preoperative diagnosis was established in 12 of these patients only by roentgenologic barium examination of the small intestine. At the time of diagnosis, 34 of the patients had metastasis to regional lymph nodes or distant organs. The median and five year survival times were one year and 19 per cent, respectively. Patients with carcinoids had better survival rates than those with adenocarcinomas or sarcomas. Palliative resection did not improve survival time. However, if other therapeutic modalities also were used, it might prove beneficial. Patients with palpable abdominal masses or intestinal bleeding, or both, had a worse prognosis than did those presenting with obstruction of the intestine because these are late presenting symptoms. Therefore, recurrent abdominal pain should increase clinical suspicion, and early diagnosis by careful examination of the small intestine with barium contrast material could improve the survival time. Finally, it seemed that these tumors had a high incidence of coexisting malignant conditions, as nine of the patients in our series had a second malignant tumor.
Malignant small bowel tumours are rare, with about 320 deaths every year due to metastases. Tumours of differing histologic entitites (adenocarcinomas, leimyosarcomas, non-Hodgkin, lymphomas, carcinoids) are detected at late stages of the disease because of non-specific symptoms. Valuable diagnostic means are small bowel enema, intestinoscopy and abdominal CT/ultrasound. Five-year survival rates are poor for carcinomas (21%), for sarcomas (37%), lymphomas (44%) and best for carcinoids (100%). Surgical options are poor for carcinomas with a high number of R2 resections and bypass operations. Multivisceral surgery is beneficial for sarcomas and lymphomas, followed by local radiation therapy or chemotherapy.
Malignant ovarian tumours of the fibrothecoma group are rare. The clinicopathological features of a case of ovarian malignant fibrothecoma in which there was metastatic disease in the small intestine and peritoneum at presentation are described. A number of differential diagnoses were considered but positive immunohistochemical staining of the resected ovarian and small intestinal neoplasms with anti-inhibin was of value in confirming a sex cord-stromal tumour and in excluding other lesions. The two tumours were also ultrastructurally identical. Classical malignant fibrothecomas are said to show four or more mitotic figures per 10 high power fields (HPF). Although the intestinal secondary was mitotically active, the primary ovarian tumour contained only one to two mitoses per 10 HPF, showing that formal mitotic counts are not an absolute indicator of malignant behaviour in this group of tumours.