72 year-old man undergoing
endoscopy for evaluation of abdominal pain. Endoscopy revealed a subtle, 2-3 cm
focus of barely raised, nodular mucosa with normal color, on the posterior wall
of the distal gastric body. The antrum and pylorus are visible in the background
of this photo. Biopsies from the lesion revealed adenocarcinoma, and the patient
was referred for surgical resection. The surgical specimen showed the lesion to
be intra-mucosal, with invasion of the lamina propria but not into the
muscularis mucosa.
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