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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Soujanya Thummathati, MBBS [2]
Synonyms and keywords: Brinton's disease, Leather bottle stomach
Overview
Linitis plastica, also known as Brinton's disease is a morphological variant of diffuse (or infiltrating) gastric adenocarcinoma (stomach cancer).[1] Adenocarcinoma is the most common type of gastric cancer accounting to almost 90% of the same, of which about 10% of them constitute linitis plastica.[2] Linitis plastica is
The other causes of linitis plastic include lye ingestion or metastatic infiltration of the stomach.
References
- ↑ Linitis plastica. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linitis_plastica Accessed on November 12, 2015.
- ↑ Malignant tumours of the stomach. Canadian cancer society. http://www.cancer.ca/en/cancer-information/cancer-type/stomach/stomach-cancer/malignant-tumours/?region=nb Accessed on November 12, 2015.