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Upright (a) and supine (b) abdominal X-rays taken on admission showing dilated loops of small bowel in the central and left abdomen.
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These findings further confirmed the suspected SBO (Figure 1).
Intraoperative pictures documenting markedly dilated loops of small bowel proximal to the tumor (a) and normal loops downstream (b).
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The small bowel appeared normal-sized distal to this mass (Figure 2).
Histology slides from the specimen documenting: (a) small bowel with a submucosal leiomyoma on a hematoxylin and eosin stain magnified 40x; (b) smooth muscle actin positivity on immunohistochemistry magnified 40x; and (c) moderate-to-severe active chronic enteritis on a hematoxylin and eosin stain magnified 100x.
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Further, moderate-to-severe active chronic enteritis was noted (Figure 3).