title: [A case of metastatic gastric cancer from breast cancer treated with proximal gastrectomy].
abstract: We report a case of a 72-year-old woman with breast cancer who developed significant stenosis due to gastric cardia metastasis. The patient had undergone radical mastectomy for breast cancer when she was 53 years old and had developed postoperative recurrent diseases in the sternum and lung when she was 62 years old. Nineteen years after mastectomy, computed tomography (CT) scans showed gastric cardia metastasis. As symptoms of cardiac stenosis gradually developed, we performed proximal gastrectomy. The specimen was histologically diagnosed as estrogen receptor( ER)-positive scirrhous carcinoma that had metastasized from the breast cancer. The patient resumed oral intake of food after surgery. Surgical treatment might be useful to improve the quality of life of patients with metastatic gastric tumor.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Surgical Oncology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine.
authors.forename: Shinji
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Matsutani
authors.forename: Hiroaki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: Katsunobu
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sakurai
authors.forename: Tomohiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Takahiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Toyokawa
authors.forename: Naoshi
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kubo
authors.forename: Kazuya
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Muguruma
authors.forename: Kenjiro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kimura
authors.forename: Hisashi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nagahara
authors.forename: Eji
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Noda
authors.forename: Ryosuke
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Amano
authors.forename: Kiyoshi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Maeda
authors.forename: Tetsuji
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sawada
authors.forename: Masaichi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ohira
authors.forename: Kosei
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hirakawa
mesh_terms: D002293:Adenocarcinoma, Scirrhous / Q000556:secondary / Q000601:surgery*; D000368:Aged; D001706:Biopsy; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D005743:Gastrectomy; D006801:Humans; D012008:Recurrence; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary / Q000601:surgery*