Left armpit subcutaneous metastasis of gastric cancer: A case report

作     者：Feng-Jun He Peng Zhang Mo-Jin Wang Yi Chen Wen Zhuang 

作者机构：Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery West China Hospital Sichuan University 

出 版 物：《World Journal of Clinical Cases》 (世界临床病例杂志)

年 卷 期：2019年第7卷第23期

页      面：4137-4143页

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学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 100214[医学-肿瘤学] 10[医学] 

主　　题：Stomach neoplasms Neoplasm metastasis Subcutaneous Case report Cancer therapy Skin neoplasms 

摘      要：BACKGROUND Gastric cancer is the third most lethal malignant tumor *** has always been a major cause of poor *** evidence shows that the most common sites for metastasis of gastric carcinoma are the liver(48%),peritoneum(32%),lung(15%),and bone(12%);however,subcutaneous metastasis is are and occurs in approximately 0.8%of *** report a rare case of armpit subcutaneous metastasis of gastric *** best surgical window was missed,as a result of lacking attention of the *** SUMMARY A 69-year-old man who had previously undergone radical gastrectomy and received eight cycles of oral chemotherapy for gastric cancer showed a rapidly growing mass in his the left armpit;within just 3 mo,the mass grew to a size of 6.9 cm×4.4 cm×5.7 *** Doppler ultrasonography and Positron emission tomography/computed tomography prompted the possibility of metastasis of the *** needle aspiration biopsy guided by color Doppler ultrasound showed the presence of cancer cells in the *** examination showed CDX-2(+),PCK(+),CK20(+),CK7(-),and TTF(-),which supported the metastasis of gastric *** the risk of resection,the patient did not undergo surgical *** The case indicates that unidentified subcutaneous masses in patients with a history of gastric cancer should be carefully evaluated.