[Malignant small intestine tumors - reporting of 22 cases]

ABSTRACT

Small intestine tumors represent less than 5% of digestive tract tumors. The goal of this work was to see the anatomoclinical, epide-miological, evolutive and therapeutic caracteristics of malignt tumors of the small intestine. We report a retrospective study which include files of patients with small intestine malight tumors proved by histology between 1992 and 2002. We report 22 cases [12 males, 8 females] with a mean age of 51 years. The circumstances of discovery of this patology were dominated by abdominal pains. The anatomopathological diagnosis was obtained by endoscopic biopsy in 14 cases, liver biopsy in 3 cases and analysis of operating piece in 5 cases. The more frequent histological nature was the adenocarcinoma. 64% of patients have metastatic cancer at the time of diagnosis. Surgery was realized in only 50% of cases