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The formation of heterotopic bone tissue in carcinomas of the gastrointestinal tract and/or their metastases is extremely rare. In a 74-year-old female with gastric adenocarcinoma, we observed extensive bone formation within metastases in the skeletal muscles. There are only 7 other cases of heterotopic bone formation in gastric cancer reported in the world literature. We suggest that heterotopic ossification in primary cancers and/or their metastases is probably the result of metaplasia of stromal fibroblasts into osteoblasts.
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