Gastric cancer and the coincidental finding of herpetic esophagitis immediately after pregnancy: a case report.
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.
Kurt
Mevlut
M
Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.
Aksoy
Sercan
S
Cizginer
Sevdenur
S
Harmanci
Ozgur
O
Altundag
Kadri
K
Karaman
Nazmiye
N
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