Advanced Gastric Cancer Perforation Mimicking Abdominal Wall Abscess.
10.5230/jgc.2015.15.3.214
- Author:
Jinbeom CHO
1
;
Ilyoung PARK
;
Dosang LEE
;
Kiyoung SUNG
;
Jongmin BAEK
;
Junhyun LEE
Author Information
1. Department of Surgery, Bucheon St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Bucheon, Korea. surgeryjun@catholic.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Gastric cancer;
Neoplasm invasion;
Stomach rupture
- MeSH:
Abdominal Wall*;
Abscess*;
Chemotherapy, Adjuvant;
Colon, Transverse;
Gastrectomy;
Humans;
Liver;
Neoplasm Invasiveness;
Pancreas;
Stomach;
Stomach Neoplasms*;
Stomach Rupture;
Surgeons;
Wounds and Injuries
- From:Journal of Gastric Cancer
2015;15(3):214-217
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
-
Abstract:
Surgeons occasionally encounter a patient with a gastric cancer invading an adjacent organ, such as the pancreas, liver, or transverse colon. Although there is no established guideline for treatment of invasive gastric cancer, combined resection with radical gastrectomy is conventionally performed for curative purposes. We recently treated a patient with a large gastric cancer invading the abdominal wall, which was initially diagnosed as a simple abdominal wall abscess. Computed tomography showed that an abscess had formed adjacent to the greater curvature of the stomach. During surgery, we made an incision on the abdominal wall to drain the abscess, and performed curative total gastrectomy with partial excision of the involved abdominal wall. The patient received intensive treatment and wound management postoperatively with no surgery-related adverse events. However, the patient could not receive adjuvant chemotherapy and expired on the 82nd postoperative day.
