Solitary metastasis to the uterine cervix from the early gastric cancer: acase report

Metastasis of gastric cancer to the uterine cervix is rare, and a case of m etastasis to the uterine cervix from early gastric cancer has never before been reported. We here present a patient who underwent a gastrectomy due to asymptomatic early gastric cancer found by chance and who subsequently suf fered from a solitary metastasis to the uterine cervix from the primary ear ly gastric cancer. Similar to Krukenberg tumors of the ovary, lymphatic dis semination is regarded as the route of metastasis from the stomach to the u terine cervix. We surmise that the present metastasis occurred through the lymphatic channel because lymph vessel permeations were found in both the p rimary lesion of the stomach and the metastatic lesion of the uterine cervi x.