title: Gastric carcinoma detected by cervical cytology.
abstract: This paper is a report on a case of gastric carcinoma of diffuse type in a young female patient aged 38. The patient was still asymptomatic at hospital admission, her only pathological sign being the finding of malignant cells of indeterminate origin at a routine Pap-test examination. Subsequent investigations showed the presence of a poorly differentiated gastric carcinoma, with metastatic diffusion to uterus, ovaries and peritoneum. Only a few cases of gastric carcinomas without cervical localization, detected by Pap-test, are reported in literature. A few other cases with cervical localization have been described. The aim of this work is to point out that a Pap-test smear may reveal the presence of extragenital tumors still unappreciated.
authors.affiliation: Unità Operativa di Oncologia, Ospedale Civico, Casalpusterlengo (Lodi), Italy. alfredo.signaroldi@schering-plough.it
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Franchi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Signaroldi
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Croce
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dedè
authors.forename: C T
authors.initials: CT
authors.lastname: Paties
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Sbalzarini
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000556:secondary*; D000328:Adult; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology*; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*; D014626:Vaginal Smears