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Image of computerized tomography on the patient's first visit to our hospital. The asterisk indicates the cancer in the third portion of the duodenum.
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F1
Because computerized tomography showed the duodenal cancer with swelling of regional lymph nodes but without distant metastases (fig. 1), the disease was judged to be radically resectable.
Endoscopic photograph of the placement of the covered SEMS at the duodenal cancer.
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F2
Taewoong Medical) was inserted and placed over the lesion (fig. 2, fig. 3), exerting hemostasis by applying pressure on the tumor surface. Soon after the placement of the stent, anemia progression stopped and hematochezia disappeared. Thereafter, chemotherapy was continued for about 10 months without any sign of recurrent hemorrhage or migration of the stent.