title: Early gastric cancer associated with synchronous liver metastasis.
abstract: During the 14 years from 1976 to 1989, 1442 gastric cancers were resected in the Department of Surgery at Kurume University. 546 (37.9%) were primary early gastric cancers. One (0.2%) of these was associated with a synchronous liver metastasis. In the advanced gastric cancers, the rate of synchronous liver metastasis was 12.8%. However, synchronous liver metastasis with an early gastric cancer is quite rate. Only 19 cases have been reported in the Japanese literature. A case involving an early cancer, 10 mm in diameter, that was associated with liver metastasis is reported.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Kurume University School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Koufuji
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Takeda
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hashimoto
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kakegawa
mesh_terms: D002299:Cardia; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000556:secondary*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology*; D013997:Time Factors