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A 58-year-old man presented with about 2 weeks of vomiting blood and black stools, accompanied by episodes of hemodynamic instability. More than 20 years earlier, he had undergone a Billroth II partial gastrectomy for bleeding peptic ulcer disease.
Endoscopy now showed an ulcerated, infiltrative mass in the remaining stomach, and biopsy confirmed invasive gastric adenocarcinoma. He underwent total removal of the gastric remnant with lymph-node dissection. Because the tumor directly infiltrated nearby structures, the operation also included splenectomy and a wedge resection of the left side of the liver.
He died 10 months after surgery.
This is a lay summary of an account first published by PMC / PubMed Central. Read the original in full
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