A CASE OF SUBMUCOSAL TUMOR LIKE LESION RESEMBLING COURSE OF SO CALLED "VANISHING TUMOR"

-REVIEW OF JAPANESE LITERATURE-

Abstract

A case of submucosal tumor like lesion which showed a course of so called "vanishing tumor of the stomach" was reported. The patient was a 68-year-old female, with a chief complaint of epigastric pain. The first gastric X-ray (Figure 1) and endoscopic examinations (Figure 3) revealed submucosal tumor like lesion at the fornix. After 4 months, the tumor like lesion had been disappeared completely in the gastric X-ray (Figure 5) and endoscopic examinations (Figure 6). Histologically (Figure 4), severe inflamatory cells infiltration and granulomatous change were observed, and this case was diagnosed as submucosal mass caused by inflamatory change. We reviewed 18 cases of so called vanishing tumor of the stomach reported in Japan.