The patient was a 75-year-old man with a history of gastrectomy with combined resection of the transverse colon ligament for gastric cancer in July 2011. He was diagnosed with adenocarcinoma (tub2, tub1), L, Ant-Gre, type 2, pT4b (SI: transverse colon ligament) and pN3b, H0, M0, P0, CY0, Stage ⅢC. On abdominal computed tomography 7 months after surgery a peritoneal metastasis was seen near the transverse colon. The patient was treated with resection for peritoneal dissemination with part of the transverse colon. Three years after the last surgery, the patient is still alive without relapse.

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