title: Gastric carcinoma with ovarian metastases in an adolescent.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Clinica Chirurgica Pediatrica, Università di Catania, Italy.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cacciaguerra
authors.forename: A E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Miano
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Di Benedetto
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Vasquez
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Magro
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Fraggetta
mesh_terms: 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*