| Literature DB >> 19688055 |
Woo Dae Kang1, Cheol Hong Kim, Moon Kyoung Cho, Jong Woon Kim, Ji Shin Lee, Seong Yeob Ryu, Yoon Ha Kim, Ho Sun Choi, Seok Mo Kim.
Abstract
Epithelial ovarian carcinoma rarely metastasizes to the parenchyma of the stomach. A 55-years-old woman presented with epigastric pain and a feeling of fullness for one month. A subsequent contrast-enhanced CT scan demonstrated a 4.5x4 cm submucosal mass with focal ulceration in the gastric antrum, and this finding was suggestive of GIST. After gastric antrectomy, the final pathology showed metastatic gastric tumor from a primary ovarian serous carcinoma. Because epithelial ovarian carcinoma is usually spread along the peritoneal surface, stomach involvement is rare. Furthermore, transmural gastric metastasis is very rare in a patient with primary ovarian carcinoma. Until now, there has been no reported case of stomach involvement at presentation in a patient with primary ovarian carcinoma. We present here a case of ovarian carcinoma with gastric metastasis that mimicked GIST.Entities:
Keywords: Gastric metastasis; Gastrointestinal stromal tumors; Ovarian carcinoma
Year: 2008 PMID: 19688055 PMCID: PMC2697489 DOI: 10.4143/crt.2008.40.2.93
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cancer Res Treat ISSN: 1598-2998 Impact factor: 4.679