title: Gastric cancer and the coincidental finding of herpetic esophagitis immediately after pregnancy: a case report.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Gastric cancer associated with pregnancy is extremely rare and usually diagnosed at an advanced stage.
  
  
  METHODS
  A 22-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital with complaints of dysphagia, retrosternal pain, nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain. Esophagogastroduodenoscopic biopsy revealed herpetic esophagitis and signet-ring cell carcinoma of the stomach.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Early recognition and diagnosis of gastric cancer during pregnancy is the only possibility for a positive outcome.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Mevlut
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kurt
authors.forename: Sercan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Aksoy
authors.forename: Sevdenur
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cizginer
authors.forename: Ozgur
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Harmanci
authors.forename: Kadri
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Altundag
authors.forename: Nazmiye
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Karaman
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D018279:Carcinoma, Signet Ring Cell / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D016145:Endoscopy, Digestive System; D004941:Esophagitis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006566:Herpesviridae Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D018259:Herpesvirus 1, Human; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011252:Pregnancy Complications, Neoplastic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D011296:Prenatal Diagnosis; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology