Metastatic gastric linitis plastica from bladder cancer mimicking a primary gastric carcinoma: a case report.

Korean J Radiol

Department of Radiology, St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul 150-713, Korea.

Published: January 2010

Primary gastric carcinoma is the most common cause of linitis plastica. Less frequently, metastatic gastric cancer from the breast, omental metastases and non-Hodgkin lymphoma involving the stomach have been reported to show similar radiographic findings as for linitis plastica. A metastatic gastric cancer from bladder cancer is extremely rare. We present an unusual case, the first to our knowledge, of gastric linitis plastica that resulted from a metastatic urothelial carcinoma of the bladder.

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