title: [An autopsy case of gastric metastasis simulating linitis plastica carcinoma from primary linitis plastica carcinoma of the rectum].
abstract: Cases of a metastatic involvement of the stomach from a colorectal cancer are extremely rare, and once such case, confirmed by autopsy, is reported. The patient, an 86-year-old woman, had a metastatic lesion of the stomach from a rectal cancer. The rectal cancer was a combined linitis plastica type and signet ring cell carcinoma, and the appearance of metastatic lesion of the stomach had simulated the linitis plastica type cancer. A metastatic involvement of the stomach presenting a linitis plastica type cancer from a breast cancer is well documented, but a linitis plastica type from a colorectal cancer has not been reported. This case is the first report concerning a gastric metastasis presenting linitis plastica type lesion from a colorectal cancer.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Gastroenterology, Juntendo Univ. School of Med.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kondo
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Usui
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Matsukawa
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yamada
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Negoro
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kan
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yoshida
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sasaki
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ishioka
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Shirakabe
mesh_terms: D002293:Adenocarcinoma, Scirrhous / Q000556:secondary*; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008039:Linitis Plastica / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D012004:Rectal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*