Signet ring cell early gastric cancer presenting as an elevated lesion.
Early gastric cancer composed of signet ring cell carcinoma is usually present as a depressed lesion and rarely manifests as a protruding lesion. To our knowledge, only eight cases have been reported in the literature. We herein report such a rare lesion which developed in an asymptomatic 55-year-old man.
Hirano
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First Department of Surgery, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, Japan.
Yamaguchi
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S
Kusano
H
H
Miyashita
K
K
Miura
T
T
Chijiwa
H
H
Morinaga
M
M
Shimoyama
T
T
Nakagoe
T
T
Shimizu
T
T
D002288:Adenocarcinoma, Mucinous / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D001706:Biopsy; D005753:Gastric Mucosa / Q000473:pathology; D005773:Gastroscopy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology