Primary Gastric Adenocarcinoma concomitant with Primary Gastric Malignant Lymphoma -A Case Report-

Akira Kurita, Shigemitsu Takashima, Yasushi Ohmura, Hideyuki Saeki, Kouichi Mandai*

Department of Surgery and Department of Pathology*, Shikoku Cancer Center Hospital

A case of primary gastric adenocarcinoma concomitant with primary gastric malignant lymphoma is reported. The patient was an 82-year-old man. His stomach desease was revealed in a physical check up. He underwent distal gastrectmy. Pathological study revealed the coexistence of primary gastric moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma and primary gastric non-Hodgkin's malignant lymphoma. The cancer was located in the distal third of the stomach, and the lymphoma in the middle third. Both lesions invaded the submucosal layer and perigastric nodal metastasis of adenocarcinoma was present. The patient died one year after the operation from a cerebrovascular accident. Clinically, he had been free of recurrence until he died.

Key words
early gastric cancer, primary gastric malignant lymphoma, synchronous double cancer

Reprint requests
Akira Kurita Department of Surgery, Shikoku Cancer Center Hospital
13 Horinouchi, Matsuyama, 790 JAPAN

Accepted
May 8, 1996

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