title: Metastases from gastric adenocarcinoma presenting as multiple colonic polyps: report of a case.
abstract: A 53-year-old woman presented with symptoms of weight loss, diarrhea, and melena. A barium enema with endoscopy revealed multiple colonic polyps which were shown histologically to be metastatic deposits of poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma. The primary tumor, a poorly differentiated gastric adenocarcinoma, had been resected 11 years earlier. This appears to be only the second published report of polypoid colonic metastases from gastric adenocarcinoma.
authors.affiliation: Second Department of Surgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ogiwara
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Konno
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kitayama
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kino
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Baba
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D001706:Biopsy; D003106:Colon / Q000473:pathology; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D003111:Colonic Polyps / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D003113:Colonoscopy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005743:Gastrectomy; D005753:Gastric Mucosa / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007413:Intestinal Mucosa / Q000473:pathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D010166:Palliative Care; D012086:Reoperation; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*