Occurrence of tumors of the small intestine

The authors present in this article the occurrence of the tumors of small intestine in the group of patients operated on at the Ist Department of Surgery, Teaching Hospital of Commenius University in Bratislava in the years 1957-1997. During this period 39 primary tumors of small intestine were registered, 29 of them being malignant. Histologically, the most frequent malignant lesion was adenocarcinoma, and the most frequent benign lesion adenomatous polyp. The highest frequency of occurrence of tumors of small intestine was in the 6th and the 7th decennium. (Tab. 4, Ref. 11.)