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AFP-producing hepatoid adenocarcinoma of the stomach: a case report

Overview of attention for article published in Cases Journal, December 2009
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Title
AFP-producing hepatoid adenocarcinoma of the stomach: a case report
Published in
Cases Journal, December 2009
DOI 10.1186/1757-1626-2-9296
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Panagiotis J Vlachostergios, Ioannis A Voutsadakis, Sotirios Barbanis, Foteini Karasavvidou, Christos N Papandreou

Abstract

Hepatoid gastric adenocarcinoma is a distinct variant of gastric carcinoma which represents a comparatively small percentage of the disease and in many cases is producing high serum alpha-fetoprotein (AFP). We report a case of an 85 year old woman who presented with epigastric and right upper quadrant pain and was found in a CT scan to have multiple liver nodules and a gastric antrum mass as well as an elevated AFP level of 155000 IU/ml. An endoscopic biopsy of the antral mass showed hepatoid variant of gastric adenocarcinoma. The patient refused any further treatment and died 4 months after diagnosis. Hepatoid gastric adenocarcinoma is considered to have a poor prognosis, although cases with survival of several years have been reported. Poor outcome in most of the cases is due to the fact that, as in our patient, metastatic disease is already present at diagnosis.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Japan 1 8%
United States 1 8%
Unknown 11 85%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 4 31%
Other 2 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 15%
Student > Bachelor 2 15%
Lecturer 1 8%
Other 2 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 9 69%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 8%
Unknown 3 23%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 18 December 2020.
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#7,453,479
of 22,786,691 outputs
Outputs from Cases Journal
#69
of 250 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#48,464
of 165,402 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cases Journal
#14
of 40 outputs
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