Abstract

ANDRADE, C. Sousa et al. Metastização Cólica: Uma forma rara de apresentação do carcinoma gástrico. J Port Gastrenterol. [online]. 2009, vol.16, n.2, pp.72-76. ISSN 0872-8178.

Worldwide gastric carcinoma is a common malignancy and advanced stages of the disease result in distant metastases to multiple organs. Metastasis to the colon are rare and usually arise as recurrence of the disease, mostly in the first five years after diagnosis. The authors present a case of a 69 year old male with symptoms of watery diarrhoea, mostly nocturnal, without blood, mucus or pus, together with abdominal pain. Diagnostic workup revealed the presence of colonic metastases as the first manifestation of a diffuse type gastric adenocarcinoma, with signet ring cell.

Keywords : Gastric carcinoma; metastases to the colon; diarrhoea.

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