[Gastric cancer presenting fine stippled calcification in radiography: a case report and a review of the Japanese literature].
A case of calcified gastric cancer is reported, with a review of the Japanese literature with special reference to the genesis of calcification. A male patient, 51 years of age, given a partial gastrectomy for an advanced gastric cancer 5 years earlier, presented general malaise. Plain X-rays revealed fine, stippled calcifications widely distributed in the upper abdomen. Additionally, computed tomography revealed a wide expanse of high density shadows with CT numbers of calcifications. On laparotomy, a histologic examination of a specimen taken for biopsy from part of the metastatic liver tumor led to a diagnosis of a mucinous adenocarcinoma showing identical histologic features of the previously resected gastric cancer, this diagnose then confirmed by Kossa's staining of fine calcified deposits in the tumor parenchyma.
Takasaki
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M
Dept. of Digestive Disease, Kochi Municipal Central Hospital.
Tanaka
Y
Y
Yokota
T
T
Yorimitsu
Y
Y
Usuki
H
H
Takemura
T
T
Morita
S
S
Hisa
A
A
Tokuoka
H
H
Horimi
T
T
D002288:Adenocarcinoma, Mucinous / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D005773:Gastroscopy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D013272:Stomach Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed