Metastatic Carcinoma Occurring in a Gastric Hyperplastic Polyp Mimicking Primary Gastric Cancer: The First Reported Case

Hyperplastic polyps of the stomach are regarded as benign. However, in rare cases they may contain incipient primary carcinomas. To our knowledge, breast carcinoma metastatic to a gastric hyperplastic polyp has not yet been reported. We describe the case of a 69-year-old woman to whom a gastric poly...

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Main Authors: Gabriel M. Groisman, Roman Depsames, Baruch Ovadia, Alona Meir
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2014-01-01
Series:Case Reports in Pathology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/781318
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