A case of skin metastasis of early gastric cancer

Abstract

A case of skin metastasis from early gastric cancer without other organ metastases is very rare. A 72–year–old man was admitted to the hospital for control of diabetes mellitus. Upper endoscopy showed early ulcerative gastric cancer on the posterior wall of the gastric angle. We performed hand–assisted laparoscopic distal gastrectomy with lymphadenectomy. Pathological findings revealed an early gastric cancer with submucosal invasion and without lymph node metastasis. Four months after the operation, a subcutaneous tumor was palpable near the wound. The tumor was resected, and diagnosed as metastasic adenocarcinoma of gastric cancer.