JOURNAL OF THE KYORIN MEDICAL SOCIETY
Online ISSN : 1349-886X
Print ISSN : 0368-5829
ISSN-L : 0368-5829
A Case Report of Leiomyosarcoma of the Stomach Showing Endo- and Exo-gastric growth
Hideaki MORISetsuo NIHEINaoki KOMORIKazutami KAWAMURAHideki AKABORIShinichi AOKIJunichi MORITAYasushi TAKAGIKatsuhide WAKASAKichiro NAGASHIMAMasataka ITOShozo SAITOToshio AOYAGIKouichiro EIDATetsuya NYUMURAShigen RIKinichi NABEYANaoyoshi FUKUZUMI
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1985 Volume 16 Issue 4 Pages 529-534

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A 70-year-old male was admitted to our hospital in a critical condition because of hematemesis accompanied by epigastralgia and severe anemia. Gastro-fiberscopy revealed a smooth, elevated lesion with three ulcerations at the cardia of stomach. A cytological examination of tumor showed cells suggestive of leiomyosarcoma. X-ray examination of stomach supported the presence of tumor shown by gastro-fiberscopy. A CT scan of abdomen and angiography revealed a hypervascularity of the tumor. Total gastrectomy revealed a tumor of leiomyosarcoma measuring 8.5×9.5cm originated from muscle layer of the cardia of stomach. The tumor was growing intra-and extra-luminally continuously from the original site, however, no metastasis of tumor was present. We attempted to report the experience about this case which might help to establish the preoperative diagnosis of rather rare this type of malignancies.
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