Abstract

SEGURA HUERTA, A. et al. Thirteen years survival in a patient with isolated skin metastases of a gastric carcinoma: What kind of disease is that?. An. Med. Interna (Madrid) [online]. 2003, vol.20, n.5, pp.35-37. ISSN 0212-7199.

The gastric adenocarcinoma is a high lethality tumour and has a great tendency to the recurrence. Liver and peritonea are the places where the metastases are most frequently localised. We introduce the case of a woman diagnosed of gastric adenocarcinoma who showed isolated skin metastasis. There were an important number of recurrences (always in the skin). She was treated with radical surgery and later treated with different citostatic schedules. The patient died 13 years after metastasis were diagnosed. With this case we wanted to pay attention about the role of the biologic prognostic factors of the gastric carcinoma. The molecular biology of these tumours can to explain the different evolution of the disease. Biologic prognostic factors can separate the gastric carcinoma into different kind of disease.

Keywords : Gastric carcinoma; Skin metastases; Prognostic factors; Long time survival.

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