We herein report the case of a 76-year-old female patient who had undergone gastrectomy for advanced gastric cancer (histologically tubular adenocarcinoma)before 5 months, presenting with abdominal skin tumor. A skin biopsy revealed tubular adenocarcinoma. Positron emission tomography-computed tomographic scanning detected right breast tumor.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 63-year-old man was admitted for the evaluation of Hb 4.8 g/dL anemia. He underwent colon fiberscopy and was subsequently diagnosed with synchronous cancers of the ascending colon and rectum.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe patient was an 85-year-old man who received chemotherapy with gemcitabine for 2 years 9 months under the diagnosis of unresectable locally advanced pancreatic body and tail cancer. He visited our hospital because of anorexia, upper abdominal fullness, and vomiting. A CT scan showed severe stenosis in the third portion of the duodenum, which was associated with the direct invasion of the advanced pancreatic cancer.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Primary small-cell carcinomas occur commonly in the lungs but rarely in the other organs. We studied the treatment outcomes in 6 cases of primary small-cell carcinoma of the digestive tract at our hospital.
Patients: Six patients were diagnosed with small-cell carcinoma of the digestive tract histopathologically and treated at our hospital from September 2000 to December 2018.