Open AccessTWO AUTOPSY CASES OF PRIMARY ADENOACANTHOMA OF THE STOMACH
Author(s) -
Taira Yoshitsugi,
Ogata Hirohumi,
Tsuchiyama Hideo
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
acta patholigica japonica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.73
H-Index - 74
ISSN - 0001-6632
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1827.1976.tb00875.x
Subject(s) - stomach , autopsy , pathology , medicine , squamous metaplasia , intestinal metaplasia , carcinoma , metaplasia , cancer , adenocarcinoma , stomach cancer , gastroenterology , epithelium
The incidence of primay adenoacanthoma of the stomach is extremely low. In the Sasebo City Hospital, there were only two autopsy cases of adenoacanthoma among 46 cases of gastric cancer during the past four years. The first case was a 45 year‐old male with adenoacanthoma. The second case was a49 year‐old female with metachronous triple cancers; adenoacanthoma of the stomach, squamous cell carcinoma of the uterus and squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue. Histological examination showed muconodular adenocarcinoma of the stomach at the time of first operation and adenoacanthoma at the time of autopsy. These two cases suggest that adenoacanthomas of the stomach may originate from squamous metaplasia or squamous differentiation of a preexisting glandular carcinoma.