Metastases from gastric adenocarcinoma presenting as multiple colonic polyps: report of a case

Surg Today. 1994;24(5):473-5. doi: 10.1007/BF01427044.

Abstract

A 53-year-old woman presented with symptoms of weight loss, diarrhea, and melena. A barium enema with endoscopy revealed multiple colonic polyps which were shown histologically to be metastatic deposits of poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma. The primary tumor, a poorly differentiated gastric adenocarcinoma, had been resected 11 years earlier. This appears to be only the second published report of polypoid colonic metastases from gastric adenocarcinoma.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adenocarcinoma / diagnosis
  • Adenocarcinoma / pathology
  • Adenocarcinoma / secondary*
  • Adenocarcinoma / surgery
  • Biopsy
  • Colon / pathology
  • Colonic Neoplasms / diagnosis
  • Colonic Neoplasms / pathology
  • Colonic Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Colonic Neoplasms / surgery
  • Colonic Polyps / diagnosis
  • Colonic Polyps / pathology
  • Colonic Polyps / surgery*
  • Colonoscopy
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Female
  • Gastrectomy
  • Gastric Mucosa / pathology
  • Humans
  • Intestinal Mucosa / pathology
  • Middle Aged
  • Palliative Care
  • Reoperation
  • Stomach Neoplasms / diagnosis
  • Stomach Neoplasms / pathology
  • Stomach Neoplasms / surgery*