[An autopsy case of gastric metastasis simulating linitis plastica carcinoma from primary linitis plastica carcinoma of the rectum].
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.
Kondo
K
K
Dept. of Gastroenterology, Juntendo Univ. School of Med.
Usui
Y
Y
Matsukawa
M
M
Yamada
S
S
Negoro
T
T
Kan
T
T
Yoshida
K
K
Sasaki
J
J
Ishioka
T
T
Shirakabe
H
H
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*