Gastric carcinoma with ovarian metastases in an adolescent.
Gastric carcinoma represents only 0.05% of malignant paediatric gastrointestinal tumours. This condition is associated with a poor prognosis because its rarity and non-specificity of the symptoms usually delay its diagnosis. The authors present a 16-year-old girl with a poorly differentiated gastric carcinoma (signet-ring-cell type) with bilateral ovarian metastases who died of peritoneal carcinomatosis despite extensive surgery and chemotherapy. The epidemiological, clinical, and pathological features of gastric carcinoma in childhood are discussed.
Cacciaguerra
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Clinica Chirurgica Pediatrica, Università di Catania, Italy.
Miano
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Di Benedetto
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A
Vasquez
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E
Magro
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Fraggetta
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F
D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007725:Krukenberg Tumor / Q000556:secondary*; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*; D010534:Peritoneal Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*