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The mucosal metastasis of adenocarcinomas located in colonic mucosa is not infrequent. We present a clinical report of a patient diagnosed with a gastric multifocal signet ring cell adenocarcinoma without any evidence of visceral dissemination with the exception of mucosal infiltration of signet ring cell adenocarcinoma in a colonic polyp and in the mucosa of previous colonic anastomosis. The histopathological study of suspect lesions in the colonic mucosa is necessary to correctly approach the treatment of these patients.
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Rodríguez Salas, N., González Paz, C., Rivera, T. et al. Colonic anastomosis and colonic polyp mucosal metastasis of signet ring cell gastric adenocarcinoma. Clin Transl Oncol 12, 238–239 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12094-010-0496-6
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