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http://dx.doi.org/10.3904/kjm.2012.83.2.216

Case of a Metastatic Solitary Fibrous Tumor Presenting as Gastrointestinal Bleeding  

Suh, Kang-Heum (Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul Veterans Hospital)
Kim, Sung-Hoon (Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul Veterans Hospital)
Si, Won-Keun (Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul Veterans Hospital)
Lee, Moon-Hyung (Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul Veterans Hospital)
Choi, Bo-Kyung (Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul Veterans Hospital)
Hwang, Jin-Ah (Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul Veterans Hospital)
Park, Yang-Soon (Department of Pathology, Seoul Veterans Hospital)
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The Korean Journal of Medicine / v.83, no.2, 2012 , pp. 216-220 More about this Journal
Abstract
Metastatic cancers of the stomach are rare. Metastatic diseases of the stomach can occur with melanoma and other primary tumors of the breast, lung, ovary, liver, colon, and testis; however, breast cancer is the most common. Other rare malignant tumors that can involve the stomach include Kaposi's sarcoma, myenteric schwannoma, glomus tumor, small cell carcinoma, and parietal cell carcinoma. On the other hand, solitary fibrous tumors of the pleura are rare soft tissue sarcomas, and most are benign; however, 13 to 36% may be malignant. Metastases may occur in extrathoracic sites, such as the liver, central nervous system, spleen, adrenal gland, and bone. We herein report a case of a 75-year-old man with previously diagnosed brain and liver metastases. He developed a stomach metastasis from a malignant solitary fibrous tumor and presented with gastrointestinal bleeding symptoms.
Keywords
Gastrointestinal hemorrhage; Endoscopy; Neoplasm metastasis; Solitary fibrous tumor;
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