Gastric metastasis from ovarian carcinoma is extremely rare and the prognosis for patients is poor. We report a case of multimodal treatment improving the survival time of a patient with gastric metastasis from ovarian cancer. A 73-year-old woman with known serous ovarian cancer was admitted to the hospital due to epigastric pain and dyspepsia. On esophagogastroduodenoscopy, a protruding mass w...

Skull bone metastasis from the gastric cancer is a rare. We reported a 52-year-old male proven to have stomach cancer and who underwent subtotal gastrectomy 5 months previously. Within the past 2 weeks, he experienced headache and dizziness followed by weakness of the left lower limb. A diagnosis of right chronic subdural hematoma (SDH) was made, and a burr hole was performed for drainage of th...

An extremely rare case of intrapancreatic bile duct metastasis from sigmoid colon adenocarcinoma is herein presented. Sigmoid colon cancer (T3, N0, M0, stage IIA) had been diagnosed and treated by sigmoidectomy in October 1993. In December 2002, a liver metastasis with intrabiliary growth was found, and this was treated by extended right hepatic lobectomy and caudate lobectomy with extrahepatic...

PURPOSE The incidence of lymph node metastasis has been reported to range from 2.6 to 4.8% in early stage gastric cancer with mucosal invasion (T1a cancer). Lymph node metastasis in early stage gastric cancer is known as an important predictive factor. We analyzed the prediction factors of lymph node metastasis in T1a cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 9,912 patients underwent radical g...

Uterine metastasis from stomach carcinoma occurred in a patient who five years previously had undergone gastrectomy for gastric adenocarcinoma. CT scans showed an ill-defined lobulated low density mass in the center of the uterus. Tl-weighted MRI imaging showed that the lesion was indistinct from the myometrium; on T2-weighted imaging it showed increased signal intensity and had infiltrated the...

Metastatic bladder cancer showing diffuse thickening of the bladder wall is very rare. We report two cases of metastatic bladder cancer arising from a stomach cancer and acute lymphocytic leukemia. Hydronephrosis and diffuse thickening of the bladder wall were revealed by ultrasonography and computed tomography. Transurethral biopsy and percutaneous whole wall needle biopsy of the bladder were ...

PURPOSE Angiogenesis plays an important role in the growth, progression, and metastasis of tumors. Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) overexpression has been associated with advanced stage and poor survival in several cancers. We investigated the present case-control study to determine whether there is an association between the VEGF 936C>T polymorphism and stomach cancer. PATIENTS AND...

Gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GIST) are rare tumours arising from mesenchyme of gastrointestinal tract and overexpress C-kit protein. Mainly seen in stomach and small bowel. Mesenteric GIST are rarely reported as they constitute less than 1% of total GIST. We here report such a rare case of GIST arising from mesentery of small bowel and presenting as acute abdomen. Good surgical clearance e...

Gastrablastoma is a rare epitheliomesenchymal biphasic tumor of stomach in children and young adults first reported by Miettinen et al in 2009. Five cases have been reported up to date including only one case with the nodal metastasis and distant metastases. With little atypism gastroblastoma is suggested to be a low-grade malignancy. Here we report one case of gastroblastoma in a 12-year-old b...

We report a rare case of a woman with inflammatory carcinoma, an unusual type of cutaneous metastasis, arising from signet-ring cell carcinoma of the stomach, who developed chylothorax as the skin lesion progressed over the chest. No thoracoabdominal lymphadenopathy which can cause obstruction of the thoracic duct was shown by computed tomography. Although a very rare condition, inflammatory ca...