A CASE OF DISSEMINATED CARCINOMATOSIS OF BONE MARROW WITH TYPE IIC EARLY GASTRIC CANCER

Abstract

A 57-year-old man was admitted to our hospital due to dyspnea on effort and tarry stool. Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy showed a hemorrhagic ulcer with exposed vessel, which was treated successfully by endoscopic hemostasis. On admission he had suffered from disseminated intravascular coagulation and bone scintigraphy revealed diffuse bone metastases. Several examination didn't find any tumor which caused diffuse bone metastases. He was cared with palliative treatment and died at the 19^th day. The autopsy disclosed a disseminated carcinomatosis of bone marrow with type IIc early gastric cancer.