Erschienen in:
29.06.2017 | Case Report
Colon Metastasis, 8 years after Gastrectomy, for Stage I Gastric Cancer
verfasst von:
Mohamed Amine Elghali, Houssem Fadhl, Fehmi Hamila, Sarra Mestiri, Mohamed Salah Jarrar, Rached Letaief
Erschienen in:
Journal of Gastrointestinal Cancer
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Ausgabe 1/2019
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Excerpt
Gastric cancers and particularly signet ring cell carcinoma are aggressive tumors and have poor prognosis. The recurrence rate after curative treatment of gastric cancer varies between 40 and 65% in 5 years [
1]. These recurrences mainly concern stage II cancers or higher and occur in 70% of cases in the first 2 years; beyond 5 years, they are of the order of 6% [
2]. Metastases in the gastrointestinal tract are rare with a rate of 2.3% in a Japanese study [
3]. We report a case of stager I gastric signet ring cell carcinoma which recurred 8 years later at an unusual site which is the colon. …