The Recognition of Exogastric Tumours

Exophytic primary squamous cell carcinoma of the stomach

“…1 Although the biological reason for these observations is unknown, the altered endocrine environment and changing immune responsiveness prevailing at different times during pregnancy have been suggested as explanations. 10 Truelove et al 3 reported that intensive steroid therapy would lead to regression of disease in up to 75% of patients with severe colitis, and there are reports of intensive medical treatment of fulminant colitis inducing remission in pregnancy. However, patients who fail to respond to medical therapy may require surgical intervention.…”

“…1,2 In addition, gastric cancer seldom grows exophytically and the proportion of exogastric tumors among all gastric neoplasms has been reported to be approximately 0.5%. 3 We report the case of a 78-year-old man who had primary gastric cancer with SCC after abdominoperineal resection (APR) due to rectal cancer. Also, the patient had exophytic growth of the gastric cancer.…”

Cases

“…The barium meal in our case outlined a cystic area of the tumour which appeared as a gastric diverticulum (Fig 1). This is one typical appearance of an exogastric tumour as described by Herlinger (1966).…”

Sonography of exophytic gastrointestinal leiomyosarcoma

“…In this regard, it has been estimated that anywhere from 20 to 70% of the leiomyosarcomas are totally exophytic [5][6][7][8][9][10]12]. In 2 large series [8,13] about 45% of the gastrointestinal contrast studies were considered unremarkable. Commonly, the only abnormality seen is compression and displacement of bowel loops by an extrinsic mass.…”