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Adenocarcinoma of the Stomach in Celiac Disease
Author(s) -
Patricia J. Westlake,
Lorne M. Price,
James K. Kelly
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
canadian journal of gastroenterology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1916-7237
pISSN - 0835-7900
DOI - 10.1155/1989/468628
Subject(s) - medicine , dermatitis herpetiformis , gastroenterology , gastritis , disease , intestinal metaplasia , antrum , stomach , gastric antrum , adenocarcinoma , metaplasia , pathology , cancer
A case of adenocarcinoma of the gastric antrum in a woman withceliac disease of 21 years duration is presented. There was widespread intestinalmetaplasia of the gastric antrum but the patient did not have typc A gastritis ordermatitis herpetiformis. Previous studies have shown that some patients withceliac disease have fundal gastritis but the natural history or premalignant potentialof this lesion is not well described. The gastric mucosa deserves more attentionin celiac disease

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