A case series of neuroendocrine carcinoma of the stomach

Rao RV, Singh Brahamjit, Sethu Babu

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Rao RV¹, Singh Brahamjit^1,* and Sethu Babu²

¹Department of Medical Oncology, Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, Minister Road, Secunderabad-500003, Telangana, India

²Department of Medical Gastroentrology, Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, Minister Road, Secunderabad-500003, Telangana, India

*Corresponding author: Dr. Brahamjit Singh, DNB Resident (Medical Oncology), Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, Secunderabad, Telangana, Phone-9075175037; Email: drbrahamjitsingh@gmail.com

Received 10 January 2019; Revised 26 February 2019; Accepted 14 March 2019; Published 25 March 2019

Citation: Rao RV, Brahamjit S, Babu S. A case series of neuroendocrine carcinoma of the stomach. J Med Sci Res. 2019; 7(2):25-31. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17727/JMSR.2019/7-6

Copyright: © 2019 Rao RV et al. Published by KIMS Foundation and Research Center. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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Abstract

Gastric neuroendocrine carcinoma (NEC) of the stomach is rare and highly malignant carcinoma. On account of the current recognition of the disease, few case series have been reported in literature from India. Our study reports four consecutive cases of gastric NEC. Few of the interesting aspects of our study were, the early age at presentation and equivalency of occurrence of the malignancy in females, as compared with the literature available. This presentation aims to highlight the fact that the gastric NEC in our country probably have a different pattern of presentation and outcome. For validating this different behavior of gastric NEC’s, more data and case series are required from our Indian subcontinent to resolve this enigma of gastric NEC’s.

Keywords: Gastric neuroendocrine carcinoma; neuro endocrine carcinomas; Indian subcontinent