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Pediatric gastric cancer presenting with massive ascites.
World J Gastroenterol. 2015 Mar 21;21(11):3409-13
Authors: Lin CH, Lin WC, Lai IH, Wu SF, Wu KH, Chen AC
Abstract
Gastric adenocarcinoma is quite rare in children and as a result very little experience has been reported on with regards to clinical presentation, treatment and outcome. We describe the case of a 16-year-old boy presenting with abdominal fullness and poor appetite for 7 d. Sonography showed massive ascites and computed tomography imaging revealed the presence of gastric mucosa thickness with omentum caking. The diagnosis of gastric adenocarcinoma was biopsy-proven endoscopically. Despite gastric adenocarcinoma being quite rare in the pediatric patient population, we should not overlook the possibility of gastric adenocarcinoma when a child presents with distended abdomen and massive ascites.
PMID: 25805952 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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