[2 Cases of intestinal occlusion caused by carcinoma of the ileum]

The Authors describe two patients observed because of an acute obstructive episode and presenting at laparotomy a stenosing carcinoma of the ileum. In these cases the first symptom, as observed in one patient may be represented by an abdominal undefined, changeable and irregular pain, whose peristaltic origin appears rarely clearly recognized. Acute obstruction may therefore be the first symptom as verified in our other case, or the clinical presentation after a long and misunderstood abdominal pain history. For these reasons these patients reach the surgeon almost always when complicated and in advanced oncological stage, so that the surgical treatment also when radically performed, offers no satisfactory.