A lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma, characterized by a carcinoma with heavy lymphocyte infiltration, is one of the histological patterns observed in patients with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-associated gastric carcinoma. Less than half of invasive carcinomas with lymphoepithelioma-like histology can grow to make a submucosal mass. These tumors generally have a better prognosis than conventional adenocarcinomas. We report a case of an EBV-associated lymphoepithelioma-like gastric carcinoma that presented as a submucosal mass on multi-detector (MD) CT and correlate them with the pathology.
Carcinoma/*radiography/surgery/*virology ; Contrast Media ; Diagnosis, Differential ; Epstein-Barr Virus Infections/*radiography/surgery ; Gastroscopy ; Humans ; In Situ Hybridization ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Stomach Neoplasms/*radiography/surgery/*virology ; *Tomography, X-Ray Computed