Turkish Journal of Gastroenterology
Letter to the Editor

Osteoblastic metastasis from signet ring cell gastric cancer in a young male

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Department of Gastroenterology, Düzce University Faculty of Medicine, Düzce, Turkey

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Department of Nuclear Medicine, Düzce University Faculty of Medicine, Düzce, Turkey

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Department of Radiology, Düzce University Faculty of Medicine, Düzce, Turkey

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Department of Pathology, Düzce University Faculty of Medicine, Düzce, Turkey

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Department of Internal Medicine, Düzce University Faculty of Medicine, Düzce, Turkey

Turk J Gastroenterol 2014; 25: 284-286
DOI: 10.5152/tjg.2014.4404
Read: 1649 Downloads: 693 Published: 25 July 2019

Abstract

Bone metastasis is common in patients with lung, prostate, and breast cancers but it isn’t common in stomach cancer. Gastric carcinoma infrequently metastasizes to the bone and rarely in an osteoblastic form. Herein we presented a rare case of signet ring cell gastric adenocarcinoma in early stage with osteoblastic metastasis. To our knowledge our case was the youngest signet cell gastric cancer patient with osteoblastic bone metastasis reported in literature.

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