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Metastatic Sarcomatoid Carcinoma of the Small Intestine: a Case Report of Rare Tumor with Literature Review

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Yousef Khelfa as corresponding author contributed in literature search, getting and preparing the figures, data collection and interpretation, and writing the report. Mohamed Alsharedi, Inderjit Mehmi, Ali Raufi, Amanda Arrington, Yehuda Lebowicz, and Toni Pacioles contributed equally to literature search.

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Khelfa, Y., Alsharedi, M., Mehmi, I. et al. Metastatic Sarcomatoid Carcinoma of the Small Intestine: a Case Report of Rare Tumor with Literature Review. J Gastrointest Canc 47, 478–481 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12029-015-9778-0

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