The Desmoid Tumor Research Foundation

May 2014

Intra-abdominal desmoid tumor mimicking gastric cancer recurrence: a case report.

Author Information

Akihiko Okamura,Aya Sasaki,Hirofumi Kawakubo,Hiroya Takeuchi,Kazumasa Fukuda,Norihito Wada,Rieko Nakamura,Shuhei Mayanagi,Tai Omori,Tsunehiro Takahashi,Yoshiro Saikawa,Yuko Kitagawa

Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Keio University, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan.tsunehiro-t@a8.keio.jp.

Publication

Summary

We report a case of an intra-abdominal desmoid tumor mimicking the recurrence of gastric cancer. A 57-year-old male had undergone distal gastrectomy for advanced gastric cancer. In patients with history of surgery for intra-abdominal malignancies, it may be difficult to distinguish the recurrence of malignancy from desmoid tumors but the possibility of desmoid tumors must be considered in the differential diagnosis.

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