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. 2017 Jan 19;12:10. doi: 10.1186/s13000-017-0601-z

Table 1.

Summary of Reported Cases of Pure Form Pancreatic-Type Acinar Cell Carcinomas Arising in the Stomach

Case No. Author, year.reference Age/Sex Site Size (cm) Initial diagnosis Gross finding Mitosis Immunohistochemical staining Therapeutic operation Ectopic pancreatic tissue Assumed origin Metastasis Outcome
1 Sun and Wasserman, 2004.[4] 86/F antrum 5.0 PDAp exophytic polypoid mass with ulcer 0-3/ HPF trypsin +, chymotrypsin +, A1AT f+, A1ACT f+, CD56 -, Syn -, Cg -, gastrin - partial gastrectomy absence pure gastric form absence NM
2 Mizuno et al., 2007.[3] 73/M pylorus 7.6 GIST or lymphomac, IIBp submucosal mass invading pancreatic head NM A1AT + pancreatico-duodenectomy absence pure form LN metastasis liver metastasis at 7 months, alive after 11 months
3 Ambrosini-Spaltro et al., 2009.[1] 52/M antrum 4.0 PDAp ulcerated mass low mitotic index A1AT +, Cg -, Syn -, gastrin - subtotal gastrectomy presence by pancreatic metaplasia pancreatic metaplasia absence NM
4 Coyne, 2012.[2] 77/F fundus 4.5 PDAp exophytic polypoid mass with ulcer 3/10 HPF trypsin +, A1AT +, CD56 f+, Syn w+, Cg -, serotonin -, insulin -, glucagon - partial gastrectomy absence pure gastric form absence died from complications after 1 month
5 Yonenaga et al., case 2, 2016.[5] 63/M antrum 6.5 PDAp Borrmann type-2 15/10 HPF chymotrypsin +, A1ACT +, Cg f+, Syn f+, insulin -, glucagon -, gastrin -, somatostatin - autopsy absence pure gastric form liver died from coexisting advanced PaDA after 5 months
6 Present case, 2016 54/M cardia 2.7 GIST or lymphomac, IIBp exophytic polypoid mass 1/10 HPF A1AT +, A1ACT +, CD56 w+, DOG1 w+, Syn -, Cg -, TTF-1 -, CD34 -, c-Kit - laparoscopic wedge resection absence pure gastric form absence alive without disease after 33 months

Abbreviations: M male, F female, PDA poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma, HPF high power field, NM not mentioned, GIST gastrointestinal stromal tumor, A1AT α1-antitrypsin, A1ACT α1-antichymotrypsin, Syn synaptophysin, Cg chromogranin, TTF-1 thyroid transcription factor 1, p pathologic diagnosis in endoscopic biopsy before the therapeutic operation; c clinical diagnosis before therapeutic operation; IIB inconclusive initial biopsy, LN lymph node, PaDA pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, + positive, f+ focally positive, w+ weakly positive, − negative