Gastric cancer occurring in a patient with Plummer-Vinson syndrome: a case report

World J Gastroenterol. 2005 Nov 28;11(44):7048-50. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v11.i44.7048.

Abstract

Plummer-Vinson syndrome (sideropenic dysphagia) is characterized by dysphagia due to an upper esophageal or hypopharyngeal web in patients with chronic iron deficiency anemia. The main cause of dysphagia is the presence of the web in the cervical esophagus, and abnormal motility of the pharynx or esophagus is also found to play a significant role in this condition. This syndrome is thought to be precancerous because squamous cell carcinoma of hypopharynx, oral cavity or esophagus takes place in 10% of those patients suffering from this malady, but it is even more unusual that Plummer-Vinson syndrome should be accompanied by gastric cancer. We have reported here a case of a 43-year-old woman with Plummer-Vinson syndrome who developed stomach cancer and recovered after a radical total gastrectomy with D2 nodal dissection.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Plummer-Vinson Syndrome / diagnostic imaging
  • Plummer-Vinson Syndrome / pathology*
  • Plummer-Vinson Syndrome / surgery
  • Radiography
  • Stomach Neoplasms* / diagnosis
  • Stomach Neoplasms* / diagnostic imaging
  • Stomach Neoplasms* / pathology
  • Stomach Neoplasms* / surgery