1992 Volume 34 Issue 7 Pages 1611-1616_1
We reported an 81-year-old male patient with giant early gastric cancer showing I + IIa type. His chief complaints were appetite loss and discomfort in epigastric region, and upper G-i series barium meal and gastro-duodenal fiberscopy were performed. They revealed giant protruded lesion appearing papillary and granular-surfaced growth at lower corpus to antrum of stomach. Histological findings of biopsied specimen suspected adenocarcinoma and then subtotal gastrectomy was performed. The size of resected specimen revealed 12.8×9.2 cm, and it showed histologically well differentiated adenocar-cinoma associated with both cellular and structural atypia, but tumor cells invaded only to the superficial mucosal epithelium showing more adenomatous and less atypical feature histologically on the basis of mucosa.
