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Volume 26

July - September 2010

Number  3


 

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Screening of gastric cancer in liver
transplantation patients: A case
report and review of literature

Abuzer Dirican1, Bulent Unal2, Nuray Bassulu3, Dincer Ozgor4,
Cuneyt Kayaalp5, Sezai Yilmaz6

ABSTRACT

Liver and other solid organ transplant recipients are at an increased risk of developing several malignancies because of the immuno-suppressive treatment. Generally, patients who had a liver transplant have upper gastrointestinal tract complaints, which makes identification of gastric carcinoma symptoms in those patients difficult. A 58 years old liver transplant male patient presented to the hospital for his routine checkup and dyspeptic complaints. He had received a liver from a cadaver 18 months ago and his postoperative period had been uneventful. An esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) revealed gastric cancer. A subtotal gastric resection with a D2 lymph node dissection was carried out. There was no recurrence during three years follow up. In order to make a timely identification of the occurrence of common malignancies such as gastric cancer, liver transplant recipients must be followed closely.

KEY WORDS: Liver transplantation; Gastric cancer, Immunosuppression.

Pak J Med Sci    July - September 2010    Vol. 26 No. 3    733-735

How to cite this article:

Dirican A, Unal B, Bassulu N, Ozgor D, Kayaalp C, Yilmaz S. Screening of gastric cancer in liver transplantation patients: A case report and review of literature. Pak J Med Sci 2010;26(3):733-735


1. Abuzer Dirican,
Department of General Surgery
2. Bulent Unal,
Department of General Surgery
3. Nuray Bassulu,
Department of Pathology
4. Dincer Ozgor,
Department of General Surgery
5. Cuneyt Kayaalp,
Department of General Surgery
6. Sezai Yilmaz,
Department of General Surgery
1-6: Inonu University School of Medicine,
Malatya, Turkey

Correspondence:

Abuzer Dirican, M.D,
Inonu University,
Turgut Ozal Medical Center,
Department of General Surgery,
44315 - Malatya, Turkey.
E-mail: abuzerdirican@hotmail.com

* Received for Publication: November 23, 2009

* Accepted: April 21, 2010



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