OBJECTIVE Diagnostic laparoscopy is recommended for the pretherapeutic staging of gastric cancer to detect any unexpected or unconfirmed intra-abdominal metastasis. The aim of this study was to evaluate the role and indications of diagnostic laparoscopy in the detection of intra-abdominal metastasis. METHODS Standard diagnostic laparoscopy with peritoneal cytology examination was performed pr...

Prostate cancer commonly metastasizes bones and lymph nodes, but it very rarely spreads to the gastrointestinal tract. However, only five cases of prostate cancer metastatic to the stomach have been previously reported in the literature. We report a case of a 69-year-old man with metastatic prostate cancer who presented with upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGB) 4 years after the diagnosis. Eso...

Extraskeletal osteosarcoma is a very rare tumor in humans and animals including rats. This paper describes a case of extraskeletal osteosarcoma observed in the glandular stomach of an aged female Fischer 344 rat. Grossly, a whitish solid mass was observed at the greater curvature of the glandular stomach. Histologically, the tumor consisted of both atypical polygonal and pleomorphic spindle-sha...

O'Reilly MK, et al. BMJ Case Rep 2017. doi:10.1136/bcr-2017-220469 DESCRIPTION A 59-year-old asymptomatic woman presented for follow-up CT thorax, abdomen and pelvis (CT-TAP). Fifteen months previously she underwent a left radical nephrectomy for a T1bN0MO, 5.5 cm Fuhrman grade 4 clear cell renal cell carcinoma (CCRCC) (figure 1). The CT-TAP revealed a new 3.6 cm peripherally enhancing, central...

Breast cancer with stomach metastasis rare with an incidence of 1% or less among metastatic breast cancer patients. We experienced a case of breast cancer metastasizing to the stomach in 65-year-old female patient. She experienced dyspepsia and poor oral intake before visiting the clinic. Diffuse infiltration with nodular mucosal thickening of the stomach wall was observed, suggesting advanced ...

Metastatic melanoma of the stomach is a relatively rare entity of unusual diagnostic during life. Most studies have pointed out that only 2% to 4% of the patients with metastasis of the gastrointestinal tract melanoma are diagnosed during the course of the disease12. However, necropsy studies have shown that about 60% of the patients who die of melanoma present gastrointestinal metastasis5,11. ...

Pancreatic cancer carries a poor prognosis, especially invasive ductal carcinoma of the pancreas. We present here the case of a 76-year-old man who developed synchronous double cancers of the stomach and pancreas. He was referred to our hospital in December, 1997, with a provisional diagnosis of carcinoma of the stomach. Laboratory data on admission showed normal levels except for the serum car...

Although ovarian metastasis secondary to gastric cancer (Krukenberg tumor) has been extensively described in the literature, gastric metastasis from ovarian carcinoma is rare. The present case report describes a patient with gastric metastasis from ovarian carcinoma. A 51-year-old female with previously treated ovarian carcinoma of stage III according to the International Federation of Gynecolo...