title: [Malignant degeneration of Ménétrier disease].
abstract: Gastric cancer was found in a patient in whom Menetrier's disease had been diagnosed 18 months before. In Menetrier's disease, incidence of cancer is as high as 14% of cases. But in only 5 cases of literature including the present one, has the time sequence been clearly documented. Metachronous tumours may be found 1 to 5 years after giant hypertrophic gastritis has been diagnozed. Such data make medical management, including anti-secretory drugs and periodic endoscopic survey, hazardous. We suggest that in documented Menetrier's disease elective total gastrectomy should still be considered as a treatment of choice.
authors: Service d'Hépato-Gastro-Entérologie, Hôpital Louis-Mourier, Colombes.
authors: G
authors: G
authors: Roseau
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Leport
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Cerf
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D000328:Adult; D005756:Gastritis / Q000150:complications*; D005758:Gastritis, Hypertrophic / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
vernacular_title: Dégénérescence maligne d'une maladie de Ménétrier.