title: Advanced Gastric Cancer Perforation Mimicking Abdominal Wall Abscess.
abstract: Surgeons occasionally encounter a patient with a gastric cancer invading an adjacent organ, such as the pancreas, liver, or transverse colon. Although there is no established guideline for treatment of invasive gastric cancer, combined resection with radical gastrectomy is conventionally performed for curative purposes. We recently treated a patient with a large gastric cancer invading the abdominal wall, which was initially diagnosed as a simple abdominal wall abscess. Computed tomography showed that an abscess had formed adjacent to the greater curvature of the stomach. During surgery, we made an incision on the abdominal wall to drain the abscess, and performed curative total gastrectomy with partial excision of the involved abdominal wall. The patient received intensive treatment and wound management postoperatively with no surgery-related adverse events. However, the patient could not receive adjuvant chemotherapy and expired on the 82nd postoperative day.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Bucheon St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Bucheon, Korea.
authors.forename: Jinbeom
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cho
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Bucheon St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Bucheon, Korea.
authors.forename: Ilyoung
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Park
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Bucheon St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Bucheon, Korea.
authors.forename: Dosang
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Bucheon St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Bucheon, Korea.
authors.forename: Kiyoung
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sung
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Bucheon St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Bucheon, Korea.
authors.forename: Jongmin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Baek
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Bucheon St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Bucheon, Korea.
authors.forename: Junhyun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lee
keywords: Gastric cancer; Neoplasm invasion; Stomach rupture