A Concurrent Case of Ménétrier's Disease and Signet Ring Carcinoma
Anderson H Kuo1, Nicholas Martinez2, Laura Rosenkranz2
1Department of Radiology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX.
ACG Case Reports Journal
|December 24, 2016
Abstract:
Ménétrier's disease, also known as hyperplastic protein-losing gastropathy, is a rare, idiopathic, acquired, premalignant condition associated with gastric carcinoma. Its association with signet ring cell cancer of the stomach has been previously reported only twice. We present the third case of histologically confirmed concurrent Ménétrier's disease with signet ring carcinoma of the stomach, interrogated by esophagogastroduodenoscopy and endoscopic ultrasound.
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