1994 年 44 巻 p. 176-177
A 67-year-old female having been checked of her anemia was referred to upper GI series and endoscopy, and they revealed a huge protruding lesion with multinodular and multigranular appearance at the angulus of the stomach.
The patient received subtotal gastrectomy, after the biopsy result of well differentiated tubular adenocarcinoma. On the resected specimen, the tumor size was 9.0×7.5cm and its height 2.1cm. In spite of the big size of the tumor, the depth of invasion was limited within mucosal layer.