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Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital
Weekly Clinicopathological Exercises
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Volume 333:1764-1769 December 28, 1995 Number 26
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Case 40-1995— A 71-year-old woman with right-lower-quadrant pain and a cecal mass
S.C. Hauser, and R.N. Smith

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A 71-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of abdominal pain.

An aortobifemoral graft procedure had been performed 17 years earlier because of atherosclerosis, and a myocardial infarct occurred 1 year later. Four years before admission a cholecystectomy was performed. An aortic anastomotic aneurysm was repaired 26 months before admission. A cystic abnormality was palpated in the tail of the pancreas at that time. During the next six months two computed tomographic (CT) scans of the abdomen showed the satisfactory status of the aortic graft. The common bile duct was dilated at 2 cm, with a slight dilatation of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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