title: [Gastric cancer presenting fine stippled calcification in radiography: a case report and a review of the Japanese literature].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Digestive Disease, Kochi Municipal Central Hospital.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Takasaki
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yokota
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yorimitsu
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Usuki
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Takemura
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Morita
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hisa
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tokuoka
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Horimi
mesh_terms: 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