[Intermediate gastric cancer]

Acta Gastroenterol Latinoam. 1985;15(3):141-7.
[Article in Spanish]

Abstract

It is presented a case of gastric cancer that penetrates the stomach wall up to the muscular layer (C.G.P.M.). In a 53 years old patient, who consulted for abdominal pain and weight lost, and who has at the present a survival of 2 1/2 years, symptom free, the radiology, endoscopic and anato-pathologic features of this disease, are analyzed. The transcendence in diagnostic of gastric cancer in this stage is emphasized.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Gastrectomy
  • Gastroscopy
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Prognosis
  • Stomach Neoplasms / classification
  • Stomach Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Stomach Neoplasms / pathology
  • Stomach Neoplasms / surgery