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In 1867 Theodor Langhans reported the first description of a carcinoid tumor in a 50-year-old woman with a mushroom-shaped small bowel tumor that contained nesting glandular structures within a fibrous stroma. Otto Lubarsch subsequently described autopsy findings of two patients…
A fistula is an abnormal communication between two epithelialized surfaces. Over the past half century, the mortality associated with gastrointestinal fistulas has decreased from 40% to 60% to approximately 15% to 20% of patients. This improvement in prognosis is attributable…