SMALL EARLY GASTRIC CANCER OCCURRING IN A YOUNG WOMAN WITH NODULAR GASTRITIS

We found a small gastric cancer in a 25‐year‐old woman with nodular gastritis. Endoscopically, the cancer was identified as a whitish area in the gastric antrum. There was also a miliary pattern in the gastric antrum and corpus. In addition, serology and histology revealed the patient to have been i...

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Published in:Digestive endoscopy 2007-04, Vol.19 (2), p.100-102
Main Authors: Kochi, Shuji, Hirakawa, Katsuya, Matsumoto, Takayuki, Nakamura, Shotaro, Sumiyoshi, Kinjiro, Nakashima, Yutaka, Hirahashi, Minako, Kawasaki, Masumi, Iida, Mitsuo
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Language:English
Subjects:
gastric cancer
Helicobacter pylori
nodular gastritis
poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma
young woman
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Summary:We found a small gastric cancer in a 25‐year‐old woman with nodular gastritis. Endoscopically, the cancer was identified as a whitish area in the gastric antrum. There was also a miliary pattern in the gastric antrum and corpus. In addition, serology and histology revealed the patient to have been infected by Helicobacter pylori. Histological examination of the resected stomach showed that the cancer was poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma with signet‐ring cell restricted to the mucosal layer. In the surrounding mucosa, there were chronic inflammatory cell infiltrates and enlarged lymphoid follicles with germinal centers. Our case suggests that nodular gastritis may be at a high risk for the development of gastric cancer of poorly differentiated type.
ISSN:0915-5635
1443-1661
DOI:10.1111/j.1443-1661.2007.00696.x