Early Gastric Carcinoma With Signet Ring Cells - Endoscopy (2 of 3)

Relatively small size linitis plastica of the stomach Gastric Cancer (scirrhous gastric carcinoma) has a poor prognosis due to delay in diagnosis. Pathological feature of this tumor is diffuse fibrosis of the gastric wall. Detection of small fibrotic lesion in the gastric wall would contribute to early diagnosis of linitis plastica, since the primary lesion usually lacks remarkable protrusion or ulceration. Early Gastric Cancer, type III typical abrupt and irregular termination of gastric folds at the ulcer margin. Early Gastric Cancer is defined as limited to the mucosa and or submucosa. Metastasis to regional lymph nodes and even to distant organs may already exist at this stage. More than 90 per cent of gastric cancer patients complain of one or several abdominal symptoms. The symptoms are nonspecific disease entity and the patient should be evaluated with an upper endoscopy mass screening should be done in countries of a high incidence such as the republic of El Salvador.