Calcified mucinous adenocarcinoma of the stomach metastatic to the iris: a case report. 2019

Miki Kaneko, and Tadashi Namisaki, and Hiroaki Takaya, and Hitoshi Mori, and Mitsuteru Kitade, and Yasushi Okura, and Kenichiro Seki, and Shinya Sato, and Keisuke Nakanishi, and Koh Kitagawa, and Takahiro Ozutsumi, and Naotaka Shimozato, and Kosuke Kaji, and Tomoyuki Otani, and Tokiko Nakai, and Chiho Obayashi, and Akira Mitoro, and Junichi Yamao, and Hitoshi Yoshiji
Third Department of Internal Medicine, Nara Medical University, 840 Shijo-cho, Kashihara, Nara, 634-8522, Japan.

BACKGROUND Gastric cancer has a wide spectrum of clinical features, imaging manifestations, and pathology. Punctate calcifications in gastric cancer are infrequent but are usually found in mucinous adenocarcinoma. However, there have only been a few autopsy case reports describing the correlation between the radiology and pathology findings of calcified mucinous adenocarcinoma of the stomach. We present an autopsy case of mucinous gastric adenocarcinoma with iris metastases as the initial symptom. METHODS A 74-year-old Japanese woman presented with blurred vision. Her treating ophthalmologist diagnosed acute iritis with secondary glaucoma. The histopathological and immunohistochemical features of a trabeculectomy specimen favored metastatic carcinoma, most likely of gastrointestinal tract origin. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy revealed multiple irregularly shaped ulcerative lesions, multiple erosions, and thickened folds in the corpus of her stomach. Histologic examination of a gastric tissue specimen obtained by endoscopic biopsy revealed poorly differentiated carcinoma with signet ring cell features. Computed tomography revealed a tumor with multiple punctate calcifications in the thickened gastric wall with diffuse low attenuation and multiple lymph node metastases, including the para-aortic lymph nodes, and peritoneal dissemination. She was diagnosed with stage IV gastric cancer (T4N3M1) and underwent seven cycles of 5-weekly TS-1, a novel oral fluoropyrimidine derivative, plus cisplatin therapy. Serial follow-up computed tomography revealed successive increases in the gastric wall calcifications. Her disease stabilized, but she died of aspiration pneumonia 8 months after the first visit. Autopsy tissue specimens had miliary, punctate calcifications present in abundant extracellular mucin pools in the submucosa, corresponding to the thickened low-attenuating middle layer on computed tomography. The final diagnosis was mucinous gastric adenocarcinoma because mucinous adenocarcinoma is diagnosed when more than half of the tumor area contains extracellular mucin pools. CONCLUSIONS We report the pathology and computed tomography imaging characteristics of a case of calcified mucinous adenocarcinoma of the stomach metastatic to the iris, including findings at autopsy. Metastatic carcinomas in the iris originating in the stomach are exceedingly rare. Multiple punctate calcifications were present in pools of extracellular mucin, a diagnostic clue for mucinous adenocarcinoma. Possible mechanisms underlying scattered punctuate calcifications in gastric mucinous adenocarcinoma warrant further investigation.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D007498 Iris The most anterior portion of the uveal layer, separating the anterior chamber from the posterior. It consists of two layers - the stroma and the pigmented epithelium. Color of the iris depends on the amount of melanin in the stroma on reflection from the pigmented epithelium.
D002114 Calcinosis Pathologic deposition of calcium salts in tissues. Calcification, Pathologic,Calcinosis, Tumoral,Microcalcification,Microcalcinosis,Pathologic Calcification,Calcinoses,Calcinoses, Tumoral,Microcalcifications,Microcalcinoses,Tumoral Calcinoses,Tumoral Calcinosis
D002288 Adenocarcinoma, Mucinous An adenocarcinoma producing mucin in significant amounts. (From Dorland, 27th ed) Carcinoma, Colloid,Carcinoma, Mucinous,Adenocarcinomas, Mucinous,Carcinomas, Colloid,Carcinomas, Mucinous,Colloid Carcinoma,Colloid Carcinomas,Mucinous Adenocarcinoma,Mucinous Adenocarcinomas,Mucinous Carcinoma,Mucinous Carcinomas
D005260 Female Females
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000368 Aged A person 65 years of age or older. For a person older than 79 years, AGED, 80 AND OVER is available. Elderly
D013274 Stomach Neoplasms Tumors or cancer of the STOMACH. Cancer of Stomach,Gastric Cancer,Gastric Neoplasms,Stomach Cancer,Cancer of the Stomach,Gastric Cancer, Familial Diffuse,Neoplasms, Gastric,Neoplasms, Stomach,Cancer, Gastric,Cancer, Stomach,Cancers, Gastric,Cancers, Stomach,Gastric Cancers,Gastric Neoplasm,Neoplasm, Gastric,Neoplasm, Stomach,Stomach Cancers,Stomach Neoplasm
D014057 Tomography, X-Ray Computed Tomography using x-ray transmission and a computer algorithm to reconstruct the image. CAT Scan, X-Ray,CT Scan, X-Ray,Cine-CT,Computerized Tomography, X-Ray,Electron Beam Computed Tomography,Tomodensitometry,Tomography, Transmission Computed,X-Ray Tomography, Computed,CAT Scan, X Ray,CT X Ray,Computed Tomography, X-Ray,Computed X Ray Tomography,Computerized Tomography, X Ray,Electron Beam Tomography,Tomography, X Ray Computed,Tomography, X-Ray Computer Assisted,Tomography, X-Ray Computerized,Tomography, X-Ray Computerized Axial,Tomography, Xray Computed,X Ray Computerized Tomography,X Ray Tomography, Computed,X-Ray Computer Assisted Tomography,X-Ray Computerized Axial Tomography,Beam Tomography, Electron,CAT Scans, X-Ray,CT Scan, X Ray,CT Scans, X-Ray,CT X Rays,Cine CT,Computed Tomography, Transmission,Computed Tomography, X Ray,Computed Tomography, Xray,Computed X-Ray Tomography,Scan, X-Ray CAT,Scan, X-Ray CT,Scans, X-Ray CAT,Scans, X-Ray CT,Tomographies, Computed X-Ray,Tomography, Computed X-Ray,Tomography, Electron Beam,Tomography, X Ray Computer Assisted,Tomography, X Ray Computerized,Tomography, X Ray Computerized Axial,Transmission Computed Tomography,X Ray Computer Assisted Tomography,X Ray Computerized Axial Tomography,X Ray, CT,X Rays, CT,X-Ray CAT Scan,X-Ray CAT Scans,X-Ray CT Scan,X-Ray CT Scans,X-Ray Computed Tomography,X-Ray Computerized Tomography,Xray Computed Tomography
D014786 Vision Disorders Visual impairments limiting one or more of the basic functions of the eye: visual acuity, dark adaptation, color vision, or peripheral vision. These may result from EYE DISEASES; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; VISUAL PATHWAY diseases; OCCIPITAL LOBE diseases; OCULAR MOTILITY DISORDERS; and other conditions (From Newell, Ophthalmology: Principles and Concepts, 7th ed, p132). Hemeralopia,Macropsia,Micropsia,Day Blindness,Metamorphopsia,Vision Disability,Visual Disorders,Visual Impairment,Blindness, Day,Disabilities, Vision,Disability, Vision,Disorder, Visual,Disorders, Visual,Hemeralopias,Impairment, Visual,Impairments, Visual,Macropsias,Metamorphopsias,Micropsias,Vision Disabilities,Vision Disorder,Visual Disorder,Visual Impairments
D015811 Iris Neoplasms Tumors of the iris characterized by increased pigmentation of melanocytes. Iris nevi are composed of proliferated melanocytes and are associated with neurofibromatosis and malignant melanoma of the choroid and ciliary body. Malignant melanoma of the iris often originates from preexisting nevi. Neoplasms, Iris,Iris Neoplasm,Neoplasm, Iris

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