title: [A case of a perforation indicative of early gastric cancer with various macroscopic findings and a collective review of the relevant Japanese literature].
abstract: A case of perforated early gastric cancer and a collective review of the relevant Japanese literature is reported. A 83-year-old woman with free air discovered by an abdominal X-ray, was referred to our hospital. On operating, a perforated ulcer was found within and lesions, indicative of a IIc + III type early gastric cancer. Macroscopically, there was an elevated lesion at the antrum of the stomach as well. Histologically, these lesions were connected and moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma. Another lesion was also found at the anterior wall and diagnosed as IIb type gastric cancer.
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D013275:Stomach Rupture / Q000473:pathology*; D013276:Stomach Ulcer / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology