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A 53-year-old woman presented with symptoms of weight loss, diarrhea, and melena. A barium enema with endoscopy revealed multiple colonic polyps which were shown histologically to be metastatic deposits of poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma. The primary tumor, a poorly differentiated gastric adenocarcinoma, had been resected 11 years earlier. This appears to be only the second published report of polypoid colonic metastases from gastric adenocarcinoma.
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Ogiwara, H., Konno, H., Kitayama, Y. et al. Metastases from gastric adenocarcinoma presenting as multiple colonic polyps: Report of a case. Surg Today 24, 473–475 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01427044
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