[A case report of 16-year-old gastric cancer patient with a rapid recurrence after curative gastrectomy].
A 16-year-old female patient with gastric cancer was recently treated at our institute. She had macroscopically curative surgery, but relapsed to die 7 months after surgery due to peritoneal dissemination. We experienced three teen-agers over past 45 years, who were 0.019% of all cases treated in our institute. Histological type of these cases was undifferentiated adenocarcinoma, exposing to serosa. Though they had suffered abdominal discomfort for long time, proper diagnosis was not done due to their young age. Even the teen-ager who has abdominal complaints should be subjected to a thorough examination of gastrointestinal tract. Oncogene analysis should be done for the familial strain of gastric cancer.
Nakayama
H
H
Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Cancer Institute Hospital.
Ishihara
S
S
Nakajima
T
T
Ota
K
K
Oyama
S
S
Wakabayashi
K
K
Nishi
M
M
Yanagisawa
A
A
Kato
Y
Y
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery*; D000293:Adolescent; D018279:Carcinoma, Signet Ring Cell / Q000556:secondary; D005260:Female; D005743:Gastrectomy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010534:Peritoneal Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*