[A case of triple malignant tumors consisting of esophagus, stomach and malignant lymphoma with a histopathological feature of collision between gastric cancer and malignant lymphoma--a case report]

Abstract

We report a rare case of a collision between a gastric cancer and a malignant lymphoma with a wide systemic metastasis, combined with esophagus cancer, stomach cancer and malignant lymphoma. A 73-year-old man complained of gross hematuria and swelling of the right testis. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed that both testes were swollen with unequal contrast and there were numerous tumors in the retroperitoneal space and pelvis. He was diagnosed with malignant diffuse large B cell lymphoma by immunostaining from the extirpated right testis. He received six cycles of R-CHOP therapy. After the second cycle, partial remission was recognized, but the tumors spread again by the fourth cycle. Thereafter, we performed MTX-HOPE therapy as a salvage therapy for four cycles. During this chemotherapy, he felt epigastralgia; esophagus cancer (squamous cell carcinoma) and stomach cancer (highly-differentiated adenocarcinoma) were found by upper endoscopy. However, the gastrointestinal cancer was inoperable, since the malignant lymphoma was progressive. His general status had been exacerbated, and he died about one year after he was diagnosed with malignant lymphoma. Pathological examination revealed that the adenocarcinoma had partly collided with the malignant lymphoma.