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KMID : 0914820040040020131
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Journal of the Korean Gastric Cancer Association
2004 Volume.4 No. 2 p.131 ~ p.133
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Gastric Cancer Occurring in a Patient with Plummer-Vinson Syndrome
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Lee Sung-Geun
Lee Tae-Mu
Kwon Yuk
Kim Ki-Han
Jung Ghap-Joong
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Abstract
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Plummer-Vinson syndrome (sideropenic dysphagia) is characterized by dysphagia due to an upper esophageal or a hypopharyngeal web in a patient with chronic iron deficiency anemia. The main cause of dysphagia is the web; of the cervical esophagus, and an abnormal motility of the pharynx or the esophagus is found to play a significant role in the above cause. Patients with this `syndrome are thought´ to be precancerous because squamous cell carcinomas of the hypopharynx, oral cavity, or esophagus take place in 10% of those patients. However, for Plummer-Vinson syndrome to be combined with gastric ´cancer is most unusual. We report the case of a 43-year-old woman who was first found to have stomach cancer under a diagnosis of Plummer-Vinson syndrome and who `recovered after surgery.
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KEYWORD
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Plummer-Vinson syndrome, Gastric cancer
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