Hirokatsu Hayashi, Itaru Yasufuku, Toshiya Higashi, Wakana Chikaishi, Ryoma Yokoi, Masahiro Fukada, Yuta Sato, Ryuichi Asai, Jesse Yu Tajima, Chiemi Saigo, Akitaka Makiyama, Yoshihiro Tanaka, Naoki Okumura, Katsutoshi Murase, Takao Takahashi, Manabu Futamura, Tamotsu Takeuchi, Nobuhisa Matsuhashi
BACKGROUND: Late recurrence of gastric cancer at 10 years post-gastrectomy is extremely rare, and the underlying mechanism remains unclear. We report a para-aortic lymph node metastasis case that recurred 12 years postoperatively. CASE PRESENTATION: A 44-year-old woman pathologically diagnosed with moderately to poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma with pT2(SS)pN2cM0pStageIIIA according to the Japanese Classification of Gastric Carcinoma (the 13th Edition) underwent laparoscopic distal gastrectomy with D1 + lymph node dissection...
May 22, 2023: Surgical Case Reports