Question 238 · LEK · Gastric cancer
Linitis plastica denotes:
- A. cancer extensively infiltrating the gastric wall that gives early metastases to lymph nodes.
- B. colon cancer causing ileus in the lower gastrointestinal tract.
- C. esophageal cancer that turns the esophagus into a hard, rigid tube.
- D. advanced, non-resectable pancreatic cancer.
- E. rare, primary hepatic cancer.
Hint
The term evokes a 'leather bottle'; think which hollow organ turns into a rigid, non-distensible sac through diffuse infiltration.
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