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World J Gastrointest Oncol. Mar 15, 2015; 7(3): 12-16
Published online Mar 15, 2015. doi: 10.4251/wjgo.v7.i3.12
Published online Mar 15, 2015. doi: 10.4251/wjgo.v7.i3.12
Gastric metastasis from primary lung adenocarcinoma mimicking primary gastric cancer
Min Ji Kim, Ji Hyung Hong, Jae Ho Byun, Department of Internal Medicine, Incheon St. Mary¡¯s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Bupyeong-Gu 403-720, South Korea
Ji Hyung Hong, Jae Ho Byun, Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Incheon St. Mary¡¯s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Bupyeong-Gu 403-720, South Korea
Eun Su Park, Department of Hospital Pathology, Incheon St. Mary¡¯s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Bupyeong-Gu 403-720, South Korea
Author contributions: Kim MJ and Hong JH collected the data and wrote the initial manuscript equally; Hong JH edited the manuscript; Park ES gave pathology opinion and prepared the slides for publication; Byun JH did critical editing.
Ethics approval: The study was reviewed and approved by the Incheon St. Mary’s Hospital Institutional Review Board.
Informed consent: Informed consent was waived because of retrospective characteristic of this report.
Conflict-of-interest: None of the authors has any conflict of interest or financial disclosures to declare.
Correspondence to: Jae Ho Byun, MD, PhD, Department of Internal Medicine, Incheon St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, 56, Dongsu-Ro, Bupyeong-Gu, Incheon 403-720, South Korea. jhbyun37@catholic.ac.kr
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Received: September 28, 2014
Peer-review started: September 29, 2014
First decision: January 8, 2015
Revised: February 25, 2015
Accepted: March 5, 2015
Article in press: March 6, 2015
Published online: March 15, 2015
Processing time: 165 Days and 19.1 Hours
Peer-review started: September 29, 2014
First decision: January 8, 2015
Revised: February 25, 2015
Accepted: March 5, 2015
Article in press: March 6, 2015
Published online: March 15, 2015
Processing time: 165 Days and 19.1 Hours
Core Tip
Core tip: This report describes the rare case of a 68-year-old patient with gastric metastasis from primary lung adenocarcinoma mimicking Borrmann type IV primary gastric cancer. When gastric carcinoma is suspected in patients with primary lung adenocarcinoma, a differential diagnosis of primary gastric cancer and gastric metastasis can be done through special immunohistochemical staining with napsin-A and thyroid transcription factor-1, especially when the biopsy results are ambiguous by histology alone.