Linitis Plastica of Terminal Ileum

Gastric linitis plastica

Laparoscopic-Assisted Trucut Biopsy for the Diagnosis of Linitis Plastica

We present a case of linitis plastica that was diagnosed in a 64-year-old woman. After several negative endoscopic biopsies, a trucut biopsy was done during diagnostic laparoscopy. This was successful in obtaining a positive result and the patient suffered no complications. Consequently the patient was referred for palliative chemotherapy . We present the case and discuss this biopsy technique ...

Slowly evolving widespread diffuse alimentary tract carcinoma (linitis plastica)

Linitis plastica, as a diffuse sclerosing carcinoma, is a slowly progressive, malignant disease (Ewing, 1940). The usual primitive site is the stomach, as the term 'linitis' indicates, but varying degrees of spread along the alimentary tract are encountered (Anderson, 1966). Invasion of the small and large intestine is rare and can lead to confusion with chronic colitis, nonspecific enteritis, ...

Slowly evolving widespread diffuse alimentary tract carcinoma (linitis plastica).

Linitis plastica, as a diffuse sclerosing carcinoma, is a slowly progressive, malignant disease (Ewing, 1940). The usual primitive site is the stomach, as the term 'linitis' indicates, but varying degrees of spread along the alimentary tract are encountered (Anderson, 1966). Invasion of the small and large intestine is rare and can lead to confusion with chronic colitis, nonspecific enteritis, ...

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...