Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Uncommon mucosal metastases to the stomach | BioMed Central World Journal of Surgical Oncology Research Uncommon mucosal metastases to the stomach R Kanthan 1 K Sharanowski1 JL Senger1 J Fesser1 R Chibbar1 and SC Kanthan2 Address Departmentof Pathology Laboratory Medicine College of Medicine Saskatoon Saskatchewan Canada and - Department of General Surgery College of Medicine Saskatoon Saskatchewan Canada Email R Kanthan - K Sharanowski - JL Senger - jbs844@ J Fesser - R Chibbar - SC Kanthan - Corresponding author Open Access Published 3 August 2009 Received 3 June 2009 World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2009 7 62 doi 1477-7819-7-62 Accepted 3 August 2009 This article is available from http content 7 1 62 2009 Kanthan et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Metastases to the stomach from an extra-gastric neoplasm are an unusual event identified in less than 2 of cancer patients at autopsy. The stomach may be involved by hematogenous spread from a distant primary most commonly breast melanoma or lung or by contiguous spread from an adjacent malignancy such as the pancreas esophagus and gallbladder. These latter sites may also involve the stomach via lymphatic or haematogenous spread. We present three cases of secondary gastric malignancy. Methods Results The first is a 19-year-old male who received a diagnosis of testicular choriocarcinoma in September 2004. Metastatic malignancy was demonstrated in the stomach after partial gastrectomy was performed to control gastric hemorrhage. The second is a 75-year-old male generally well who was diagnosed with .
