A Case of Early Gastric Cancer in Childhood.
- Author:
Yong Woon SHIN
;
Tae Byung PARK
;
Kee Hyung LEE
;
Chul Ho CHO
;
Juhn Mi KIM
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Early gastric cancer;
Childhood
- MeSH:
Adolescent;
Child;
Diagnosis;
Humans;
Incidence;
Male;
Prognosis;
Stomach;
Stomach Neoplasms*
- From:Korean Journal of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
1992;12(2):259-261
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
The incidence of gastric cancer is high in old age group and low in young age group, extremely rare in child age. So the diagnosis of gastric cancer in young age is often delayed, and this, with other factors such as poorly differentiated histopathologic tendency and rapid growing nature, makes the prognosis poorer than in other age guoup. Therefore it should always be remembered that the young who has gastric symptom may have malignancy in his stomach in spite of the age. We report a case of early gastric cancer in a 16-years old male with the review of the literature.
