title: Primary squamous cell carcinoma of the stomach: a case report and review of the literature.
abstract: Primary squamous cell carcinoma of the stomach is extremely rare. To date, only 80 cases have been reported. A 65-year-old man with complaints of epigastric pain and cachexia for the past year is presented. He had a tumour with infiltration of the corpus and antrum of the stomach. The tumour was unresectable, and the patient died within 3 months.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine, Dicle University, Dicle, Turkey. dursunm@dicle.edu.tr
authors.forename: Mehmet
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dursun
authors.forename: Mehmet
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yaldiz
authors.forename: Abdurrahman
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Işikdoğan
authors.forename: Gülşen
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Yilmaz
authors.forename: Fikri
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Canoruç
authors.forename: Necati
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ormeci
authors.forename: Serif
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yilmaz
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology