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  2. Nodule (medicine) - Wikipedia

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    The evaluation of a skin nodule includes a description of its appearance, its location, how it feels to touch and any associated symptoms which may give clues to an underlying medical condition. [4] Often discovered unintentionally on a chest x-ray, a single nodule in the lung requires assessment to exclude cancer. [9]

  3. Stomach cancer - Wikipedia

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    Stomach cancer, also known as gastric cancer, is a malignant tumor of the stomach. It is a cancer that develops in the lining of the stomach. [10] Most cases of stomach cancers are gastric carcinomas, which can be divided into a number of subtypes, including gastric adenocarcinomas. [2] Lymphomas and mesenchymal tumors may also develop in the ...

  4. Gastrointestinal stromal tumor - Wikipedia

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    On abdominal x-ray, stomach GISTs may appear as a radiopaque mass altering the shape of the gastric air shadow. Intestinal GISTs may displace loops of bowel and larger tumors may obstruct the bowel and films will show an obstructive pattern .

  5. Tumor of the stomach - Wikipedia

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    The stomach is an organ of the gastrointestinal tract that sits in the abdomen. [1] Tumors of the stomach are known as gastric tumors, and can be either benign or malignant (gastric cancer). These tumors arise from the cells of the gastric mucosa which lines the stomach. Typically, most gastric tumors are cancerous and not detected until a ...

  6. Gastrointestinal cancer - Wikipedia

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    Cancer of the stomach, also called gastric cancer, is the fourth-most-common type of cancer and the second-highest cause of cancer death globally. [2] Eastern Asia (China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia) is a high-risk area for gastric cancer, and North America, Australia, New Zealand and western and northern Africa are areas with low risk. [5]

  7. Neoplasm - Wikipedia

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    The most extensive region of abnormality (the outermost yellow irregular area in the diagram) would reflect the earliest event in formation of a malignant neoplasm. [ citation needed ] In experimental evaluation of specific DNA repair deficiencies in cancers, many specific DNA repair deficiencies were also shown to occur in the field defects ...

  8. Gastrinoma - Wikipedia

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    Gastrin is secreted by the G cells.G cells are primarily found in the pyloric antrum but can also be found in the duodenum and the pancreas. [12] The primary function of gastrin is to induce the release of hydrochloric acid (HCl) from the parietal cells located in the fundus of the stomach.

  9. Sister Mary Joseph nodule - Wikipedia

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    Medical imaging, such as abdominal ultrasound, may be used to distinguish a Sister Mary Joseph nodule from another kind of mass. [ 2 ] Gastrointestinal malignancies account for about half of underlying sources (most commonly gastric cancer , colonic cancer or pancreatic cancer , mostly of the tail and body of the pancreas [ 3 ] ), and men are ...