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1: Indian J Med Sci. 2006 Nov;60(11):467-70.Click here to read Links

Gastric adenocarcinoma presenting with intestinal pseudoobstruction, successfully treated with octreotide.

Sharma S, Ghoshal UC, Bhat G, Choudhuri G.

Department of Gastroenterology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India.

Intestinal pseudoobstruction has been reported as a paraneoplastic manifestation of several cancers, including those of gastrointestinal tract. Octreotide, a somatostatin analogue, has been used successfully in the treatment of idiopathic and scleroderma-associated intestinal pseudoobstruction. We report a 65-year-old man with carcinoma stomach presenting with intestinal pseudoobstruction, which responded to octreotide.

PMID: 17090868 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]