Diffuse calcification in gastric cancer.
The progressive expansion of calcification into the wall of the stomach and peritoneal metastatic foci was observed in a 31-year-old female with Borrmann type 4 calcified advanced gastric cancer. Despite treatment with systemic lentinan, uracil tegaful and mitomycin C, together with intraperitoneal injections of mitomycin C, OK-432 and prednisolone, the patient died 27 months after first presentation. The case provided a useful means of studying the mechanism of calcification.
Kunieda
K
K
Third Department of Internal Medicine, Kansai Medical University, Osaka, Japan.
Okuhira
M
M
Nakano
T
T
Nakatani
S
S
Tateiwa
J
J
Hiramatsu
A
A
Mizuno
T
T
Shiozaki
Y
Y
Sameshima
Y
Y
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology; D000328:Adult; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007912:Lentinan / Q000627:therapeutic use; D016685:Mitomycin; D008937:Mitomycins / Q000627:therapeutic use; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
D008937:Mitomycins; D007912:Lentinan; D016685:Mitomycin