Advanced Gastric Cancer That Was Curatively Resected 78 Months after Being Diagnosed: Report of a Case

진단 후 78개월 뒤에 근치적으로 절제된 진행위암 1예

  • Son, Hae-Jung (Department of Surgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine) ;
  • Yoo, Moon-Won (Department of Surgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine) ;
  • Kong, Seong-Ho (Department of Surgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine) ;
  • Ahn, Hye-Seong (Department of Surgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine) ;
  • Lee, In-Kyu (Department of Surgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine) ;
  • Kim, Woo-Ho (Department of Pathology, Seoul National University College of Medicine) ;
  • Lee, Hyuk-Joon (Department of Surgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine) ;
  • Yang, Han-Kwang (Department of Surgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine)
  • 손해정 (서울대학교 의과대학 외과학교실) ;
  • 유문원 (서울대학교 의과대학 외과학교실) ;
  • 공성호 (서울대학교 의과대학 외과학교실) ;
  • 안혜성 (서울대학교 의과대학 외과학교실) ;
  • 이인규 (서울대학교 의과대학 외과학교실) ;
  • 김우호 (서울대학교 의과대학 병리학교실) ;
  • 이혁준 (서울대학교 의과대학 외과학교실) ;
  • 양한광 (서울대학교 의과대학 외과학교실)
  • Received : 2009.09.22
  • Accepted : 2010.04.02
  • Published : 2010.03.30

Abstract

The natural history of gastric cancer is unclear. We report here on a rare case of advanced gastric cancer for which we performed curative gastrectomy 78 months after the diagnosis. A 74-year-old woman with epigastric pain underwent esophagogastroscopy in January, 2000 and she was diagnosed with advanced gastric cancer. Suspicious omental cake was noted on CT. After refusing all kinds of treatment, she underwent a follow up CT scan on September, 2002, which no longer suggested omental cake. She once again refused treatment, but she visited the hospital in June, 2006 due to severe epigastric pain and a decreased oral intake. Abdominal CT showed no distant metastasis, and so radical subtotal gastrectomy with regional lymph node dissection was performed in July, 2006 and the TNM stage was T2bN1M0 (stage II).

위암의 자연사는 불분명하다. 이에 저자들은 진행위암으로 진단받은 후 78개월 동안 치료 없이 지내다 수술 후 II기로 진단받은 1예를 경험하였기에 보고한다. 대상 환자는 74세 여자로 2000년 1월 상복부 통증으로 시행한 내시경 검사에서 전정부에 진행위암이 진단되었고 복부 전산화단층촬영(CT)에서 그물막 전이소견이 의심되었다. 이후 치료 없이 지내던 환자가 재평가를 원하여 2002년 9월에 시행한 복부CT에서 그물막 전이로 보였던 병변이 보이지 않았다. 이후에도 치료를 받지 않았고 2006년 6월에 식사량이 줄어 시행한 복부 CT에서 원격전이는 보이지 않았다. 2006년 7월 근치적 위아전절제술을 시행하였고 병기는 T2bN1M0로 II기였다.

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