A 53-year-old male visited our hospital because of gastric carcinoid, which was 4mm sized Yamada-Itype polyp. The biopsy specimen showed carcinoid infiltrating to submucosa. Subtotal gastrectomy with cholecystectomy was performed as the diagnosis of gastric carcinoid with cholelithiasis. Pathologically no remained carcinoid of gastric surgical specimen and no lymphonoid metastasis was reported.
It considered repeated biopsy took the all of gastric carcinoid. It revealed that endoscopic mucosal resection could be performed up to at least 4mm sized carcinoid of the stomach.
