Long-term survival without recurrence after surgery for gastric yolk sac tumor-like carcinoma: a case report

Long-term survival without recurrence after surgery for gastric yolk sac tumor-like carcinoma: a case report

Abstract Background Gastric yolk sac tumor (YST)-like carcinoma is extremely rare, and its prognosis is poor, because most patients have widespread metastases at the time of diagnosis. We report a case of gastric YST-like carcinoma with an adenocarcinoma component without metastases in which curativ...

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Main Authors: Hibiki Umeda, Satoru Kikuchi, Shinji Kuroda, Shuya Yano, Takehiro Tanaka, Kazuhiro Noma, Masahiko Nishizaki, Shunsuke Kagawa, Yuzo Umeda, Toshiyoshi Fujiwara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2021-05-01
Series:Surgical Case Reports
Subjects:
Gastric yolk sac Tumor-like carcinoma
Adenocarcinoma
Alpha-fetoprotein
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40792-021-01199-3

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s40792-021-01199-3

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