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Primary rectal lymphoma (PRL) is the rarest primary rectal cancer.
Clinical presentation is similar to rectal carcinoma. The role of
surgery is still controversial and the benefit of chemotherapy and
radiotherapy is not well established. We here report the case of female
patient suffering from PRL completely disappeared with chemotherapy.
A Tunisian male diagnosed with an acute lymphoblastic leukemia was
admitted to our hospital for a chemotherapy cure . During the
hospitalization, he presented an acute epigastric pain with fever.
Abdominal CT scan showed circumferential gastric thickening with an
enhancement defect suggestive of gastric ischemia associated with
segmental pulmonary embolism.
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