Abstract

VARGAS-RUBIO, Rómulo Darío  and  OVALLE-HERNANDEZ, Alan Felipe. Radiation enteritis. Case report and literature review. Rev Col Gastroenterol [online]. 2020, vol.35, n.3, pp.362-368.  Epub Mar 01, 2021. ISSN 0120-9957.  https://doi.org/10.22516/25007440.502.

Radiation enteritis is a pathology caused by radiation therapy, used to treat radiosensitive tumors. Acute or chronic eneritis may be suspected in the presence of symptoms such as malabsorption or intestinal obstruction, which alter the patients quality of life. The following is the case report of a 67-year-old male patient, who consulted for symptoms of intestinal obstruction, with a history of diffuse type adenocarcinoma with infiltrating signet ring cells involving the entire thickness of the gastric wall. The patient underwent a total gastrectomy associated with chemoradiotherapy.

Keywords : Radiation enteritis; Bowel obstruction; Malabsorption; Treatment.

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