Indian Journal of Pathology and Oncology
  • Year: 2017
  • Volume: 4
  • Issue: 4

Signet ring cell carcinoma from the stomach presenting as a metastasis to soft tissue

  • Author:
  • R. Banukeerthana1, Leena D. Joseph2,, CN Sai Shalini3, R Ramya4, M. Nikitha5
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 667 to 669

1PG Student, Dept. of Pathology, Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu

2Professor, Dept. of Pathology, Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu

3Associate Professor, Dept. of Pathology, Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu

4Professor, Dept. of General Surgery, Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu

5CRRI, Dept. of Surgery, Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu

*Corresponding Author: Email: leenadj@gmail.com

Online published on 3 April, 2018.

Abstract

Soft tissue metastasis of visceral cancers are uncommon, as these cancers usually metastasize to surfaces near the primary tumor. Metastasis of signet ring cell carcinoma of stomach to soft tissue is a rare entity and we report a case which presented to us with swelling in the chest wall, the biopsy of which proved to be a metastasis from an unknown primary in the stomach, which was also biopsied and confirmed.

Keywords

Metastasis, Signet ring, Primary, Stomach, Soft tissue