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Cancer in the Excluded Stomach 4 Years after Gastric Bypass

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Gastric bypass is the preferred operation for treatment of morbid obesity on many services. The evaluation of the excluded stomach is always difficult and a matter of concern for the attending physician. There are only four reported cases of gastric cancer in the distal stomach after gastric bypass. We report a 57-year-old man who had intestinal metaplasia at the time of the Roux-en-Y gastric bypass 4 years ago and now developed an aggressive carcinoma in the bypassed stomach.

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Corsini, D.A., Simoneti, C.A.M., Moreira, G. et al. Cancer in the Excluded Stomach 4 Years after Gastric Bypass. OBES SURG 16, 932–934 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1381/096089206777822313

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