Seeding of the percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tract from esophageal squamous cell cancer presenting as an acutely bleeding malignant gastric ulcer: A novel clinicoendoscopic presentation

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 35-39

  Cappell, Mitchell S ^a   Lufadeju, Adedamola ^b   Challa, Ajit ^b   Katz, Philip O ^b  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Complications of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy PEG); Esophageal squamous cell cancer; Implantation metastases; Malignant gastric ulcer; Seed metastases

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL MASS; ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSPHAGIA; ENDOSCOPIC BIOPSY; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; ESOPHAGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS OBSTRUCTION; GASTRIC ULCER BLEEDING; HUMAN; MALE; MELENA; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; STOMACH PERFORATION;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; GASTROSTOMY; HUMANS; MALE; MELENA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM SEEDING; NEOPLASMS, SQUAMOUS CELL; STOMACH ULCER; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 37849010072     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SMJ.0b013e31815d28d2     Document Type: Article

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