Gastric Endocrine Cell Carcinoma with Long-Term Survival Developing Metachronous Remnant Cancer

A rare case of primary gastric endocrine cell carcinoma in a 79-year-old man is reported. Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy showed a large Bormann’s type 2 tumour located in the middle of the stomach. On computed tomography, the gastric wall was thickened by the large tumour, and there were no distan...

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Main Authors: Tomoyuki Abe, Naofumi Shigeta, Yoshifumi Teraoka, Shoichiro Mukai, Hiroshi Mitsuta, Hidehiro Tanji, Shinya Kodama, Kazuo Sumimoto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Karger Publishers 2011-04-01
Series:Case Reports in Gastroenterology
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Online Access:http://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/326961