Gastric crohns presenting as linitis plastica

Gastric linitis plastica

Recurrent bladder cancer presenting as rectal linitis plastica.

A 55-year-oldman presentedwith a 4-day history of rectal pain, urgency, and a feeling of heaviness. He had also noticed thinning of the caliber of his stool. His past history included stage II, T2–3, muscle invasive urothelial bladder carcinoma, diagnosed 10 months previously, for which he had received neoadjuvant chemotherapy before undergoing radical cystoprostatectomy, pelvic lymphadenectomy...

Metastatic Gastric Linitis Plastica from Bladder Cancer Mimicking a Primary Gastric Carcinoma: a Case Report

Primary gastric carcinoma is the most common cause of linitis plastica. Less frequently, metastatic gastric cancer from the breast, omental metastases and non-Hodgkin lymphoma involving the stomach have been reported to show similar radiographic findings as for linitis plastica. A metastatic gastric cancer from bladder cancer is extremely rare. We present an unusual case, the first to our knowl...

A case report of gastric linitis plastica diagnosed by endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration

RATIONALE There is currently no consensus on the ideal method for obtaining deep tissue biopsy material of advanced gastric LP. EUS-FNA has potential as a useful diagnostic method. Thus, we report the case of a 46-year-old male with advanced gastric linitis plastica (LP) who was diagnosed using endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration (EUS-FNA). PATIENT CONCERNS The patient underwe...

Submucosal Endoscopic Sampling for Indefinite Gastric Linitis Plastica Infiltrating into the Submucosal Layer.

The diagnosis of diffuse-type gastric cancer, named linitis plastica (LP), is difficult because of its infiltration into the submucosa. Conventional endoscopic biopsy sampling may show false-negative results because the superficial mucosa is often normal. These macroscopic features do not often permit the distinction between benign and malignant lesions, and sampling methods have some limitatio...