Krukenberg tumor after gastric bypass for morbid obesity: Bariatric surgery and gastric cancer
- Resource Type
- article
- Authors
- Pablo Menéndez; Pedro Villarejo; David Padilla
- Source
- Revista Espanola de Enfermedades Digestivas, Vol 105, Iss 5, Pp 296-298 (2013)
- Subject
- Cirugía bariátrica
Cáncer gástrico
Obesidad mórbida
Tumor de Krukenberg
Diseases of the digestive system. Gastroenterology
RC799-869
- Language
- English
Spanish; Castilian
- ISSN
- 1130-0108
Gastric by-pass is one of the most performed surgical procedure in bariatric surgery. Neoplasm within gastric remnant is a slightly frequent complication (only six cases have been described) but with important survival consequences. We present a case of a patient who developed an adenocarcinoma in excluded stomach, after three years of bariatric surgery; the tumor was incidentally discovered after a gynecological surgery for uterine myomas. Different diagnostic modalities for the excluded stomach were analyzed.