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An unusual presentation of carcinoma stomach

Symptomatic gastric malignancy usually presents with symptoms which mimic peptic ulcer disease.Usual presenting features include weight loss and abdominal pain. Other symptoms include nausea, vomiting, dysphagia, melena and early satiety. Gastric malignancy presenting with hemetemesis, macular skin...

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Autores principales: George, Jeffey, Johnson, Deepak Kochummen, Rajan, Rajneesh Anugraha, Kolassery, Sandesh, Thazhath, Ramachandran Mavali
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3641920/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23646220
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2013.14.84.1203
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author George, Jeffey
Johnson, Deepak Kochummen
Rajan, Rajneesh Anugraha
Kolassery, Sandesh
Thazhath, Ramachandran Mavali
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description Symptomatic gastric malignancy usually presents with symptoms which mimic peptic ulcer disease.Usual presenting features include weight loss and abdominal pain. Other symptoms include nausea, vomiting, dysphagia, melena and early satiety. Gastric malignancy presenting with hemetemesis, macular skin lesions of DIC and low backache due to bone metastasis from the primary is rare. Also bone metastasis in gastric cancer in the absence of hepatic metastasis is also rare.
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spelling pubmed-36419202013-05-03 An unusual presentation of carcinoma stomach George, Jeffey Johnson, Deepak Kochummen Rajan, Rajneesh Anugraha Kolassery, Sandesh Thazhath, Ramachandran Mavali Pan Afr Med J Case Report Symptomatic gastric malignancy usually presents with symptoms which mimic peptic ulcer disease.Usual presenting features include weight loss and abdominal pain. Other symptoms include nausea, vomiting, dysphagia, melena and early satiety. Gastric malignancy presenting with hemetemesis, macular skin lesions of DIC and low backache due to bone metastasis from the primary is rare. Also bone metastasis in gastric cancer in the absence of hepatic metastasis is also rare. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2013-03-05 /pmc/articles/PMC3641920/ /pubmed/23646220 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2013.14.84.1203 Text en © Jeffey George et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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