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Case Report

J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1994;37(1):109-114. Published online January 15, 1994.

A Case of Childhood Adenocarcinoma

Mi Jung MJ Park¹, Moon Sung MS Psrk¹, Seunng Hwang SH Oh¹, Chuhl Joo CJ Lyu¹, Ki Sup KS Chung¹, Byung Soo BS Kim¹

¹Department of Pediatrics, Yonsei Cancer, College of Medicine, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

Abstract

Gastric adenocarcinoma in childhood is an extremely rare disease with poor prognosis. We experienced a case in which a 14 year old female patient who was admitted with complaints of abdominal pain, indigestion and obstipation. Her physical examination revealed positive Blumer's rectal shelf, positive ascitic fluid cytology and typical radiologic and endoscopic findings suggesting gartric adenocarcinoma. She showed symptomatic improvement with combination chemotherapy. Thus we report a case of gastric adenocarcinoma with a brief review of literatures.

Keywords :Gastric adenocarcinoma, Childhood