title: Mixed exocrine and endocrine carcinoma in the stomach: a case report.
abstract: We report a rare case of the coexistence of a gastric small cell neuroendocrine carcinoma with a gastric adenocarcinoma. A 62-year-old man presented with epigastric soreness for 1 month. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy revealed a Borrmann type I tumor at the lesser curvature of the lower body of the stomach. The patient underwent a distal gastrectomy with D2 lymph node dissection and the resected specimen exhibited a 3.5×3.5 cm sized, fungating lesion. Two separated, not intermingling, lesions with non-adenocarcinoma components encircled by well differentiated adenocarcinoma components were identified microscopically. The non-adenocarcinoma component showed neuroendocrine features, such as a solid and trabecular pattern, and the tumor cells showed a high nuclear grade with minimal cytoplasm, indistinct nucleoli, and positive response for synaptophysin, CD56. The final pathological diagnosis was a gastric mixed exocrine-endocrine carcinoma (MEEC) composed of an adenocarcinoma and small cell neuroendocrine carcinoma of the collision type.
authors.affiliation: Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of Surgery, The Catholic University of Korea, School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Han Hong
authors.initials: HH
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Chan Kwon
authors.initials: CK
authors.lastname: Jung
authors.forename: Eun Sun
authors.initials: ES
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authors.forename: Kyo Young
authors.initials: KY
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: Hae Myung
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Jeon
authors.forename: Cho Hyun
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Park
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