Journal of Surgery

Huanhong Zeng

Publications

• Case Report
  Gastric Cancer in Pregnancy in China: Case Reports and a Mini-Review
  Author(s): Huanhong Zeng, Xin Zhou, Haiting Xie, Yangyu Zhao and Wei FuHuanhong Zeng, Xin Zhou, Haiting Xie, Yangyu Zhao and Wei Fu
  
  Gastric cancer associated with pregnancy is quite rare, and it is often diagnosed late due to misinterpretation of clinic presentations as pregnancy-related digestive symptoms. Most pregnancy-associated gastric cancer is often at its advanced stage at the time of diagnosis. The difficulties in the early diagnosis of gastric cancer in pregnant women deter timely surgical treatment for the disease. We reviewed the existing literature using the key words “pregnancy” and “gastric cancer”. 65 cases, including 62 cases reported previously in China and 3 cases that we report here, were accumulated. The analysis of these and other 29 cases from Japan revealed that the pathology of such kind of tumor mostly were poorly differentiated diffuse carcinomas. Some further examinations should be conducted timely on the pregnant patients with persis.. Read More»
  

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