Case Report
Malignant Gastric Outlet Obstruction
Salih Samo*
Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA
- *Corresponding Author:
- Salih Samo
Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
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E-mail: salihsamo@hotmail.com
Received date: March 21, 2016; Accepted date: June 2, 2016; Published date: June 9, 2016
Citation: Samo S (2016) Malignant Gastric Outlet Obstruction. J Gastrointest Dig Syst 6:436. doi:10.4172/2161-069X.1000436
Copyright: © 2016 Samo S. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Currently, malignancy is the most common cause of gastric outlet obstruction (GOO) accounting for 50-80% of the cases. Additionally, GOO occurs in 15-25% of patients with pancreatic cancer. This case report is an interesting image of an enormously dilated stomach in a pancreatic cancer patient due to duodenal obstruction secondary to pancreatic cancer.
