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Gastric carcinoma with ovarian metastases in an adolescent

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Gastric carcinoma represents only 0.05% of malignant paediatric gastrointestinal tumours. This condition is associated with a poor prognosis because its rarity and non-specificity of the symptoms usually delay its diagnosis. The authors present a 16-year-old girl with a poorly differentiated gastric carcinoma (signet-ring-cell type) with bilateral ovarian metastases who died of peritoneal carcinomatosis despite extensive surgery and chemotherapy. The epidemiological, clinical, and pathological features of gastric carcinoma in childhood are discussed.

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  1. Clinica Chirurgica Pediatrica, Università di Catania, Italy, , , , , , IT

    S. Cacciaguerra, A. E. Miano & A. Di Benedetto

  2. Istituto di Anatomia ed Istologia Patologica, Università di Catania, Via Biblioteca n° 4, I-95124 Catania, Italy, , , , , , IT

    E. Vasquez, G. Magro & F. Fraggetta

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  1. S. Cacciaguerra
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  2. A. E. Miano
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Accepted: 5 August 1997

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Cacciaguerra, S., Miano, A., Di Benedetto, A. et al. Gastric carcinoma with ovarian metastases in an adolescent. Pediatr Surg Int 14, 98–99 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003830050449

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