Hearing loss as an unusual consequence of metastatic gastric adenocarcinoma
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Hearing loss as an unusual consequence of metastatic gastric adenocarcinoma
A sixty-one year old man was referred with a history of progressive dysphagia, vomiting and weight loss with some back pain. Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy and biopsies revealed a gastro-oesophageal junction adenocarcinoma. Despite the absence of metastatic disease on computed tomography, positron emission tomography demonstrated multiple vertebral and sternal deposits. He was reviewed in an ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Surgical Case Reports
سال: 2010
ISSN: 2042-8812
DOI: 10.1093/jscr/2010.8.6