title: [Recurrent advanced gastric cancer diagnosed 20 years after partial gastrectomy].
abstract: A 67-year-old woman underwent partial gastrectomy (por2+sig, stage IIIA) for gastric cancer. She was admitted to our hospital because of swelling of her left neck lymph nodes 20 years after surgery. A biopsy specimen revealed poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma with signet-ring cell carcinoma. We diagnosed recurrence of gastric cancer and gave chemotherapy, but she died of myelosuppression and disseminated intravascular coagulation 2 years later. On autopsy, we examined all organs except the brain, but the primary lesion was not recognized. We concluded that this case was late recurrence after partial gastrectomy for advanced gastric cancer.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology, Beppu Medical Center, Japan. ren-bee263@aria.ocn.ne.jp
authors.forename: Takeshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kawabe
authors.forename: Masahiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yoshinaga
authors.forename: Yosuke
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kitamura
authors.forename: Hiroyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Murao
authors.forename: Kentaro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Taki
authors.forename: Toyoma
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kaku
authors.forename: Shinsaku
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yamashita
authors.forename: Satoru
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tsuruta
authors.forename: Yasuji
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yoshikawa
authors.forename: Hironori
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sakai
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D000368:Aged; D018279:Carcinoma, Signet Ring Cell / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D005743:Gastrectomy; D006801:Humans; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D013997:Time Factors