Review Article

Gastric Collision Tumors: An Insight into Their Origin and Clinical Significance

Table 1

Neuroendocrine carcinoma and gastric adenocarcinoma collision tumors.

AuthorSex/ageGastric adenocarcinomaNodesFollow-upAdjuvant treatment

Grossi and Lattes [39], 1956M/74N/AN/A12 mN/A
Parks [20], 1970M/54N/ANEC/GA (+)3 m (DOD)N/A
Yamashina and Flinner [40], 1985M/50MixedNEC (+)N/AN/A
Yoshino et al. [37], 1987F/63WDN/AN/AN/A
Chodankar et al. [41], 1989F/69WDN/AN/A
Morishita et al. [28], 1991M/49MDN/AN/AN/A
Corsi and Bosman [42], 1995M/72MDN/AN/AN/A
Fukui et al. [21], 2001M/63PDN/AN/AN/A
de Leval et al. [11], 2002M/87WDNEC (+)1 m (DOD)N/A
Olinici et al. [43], 2004M/68N/AN/AN/AN/A
Morishita et al. [44], 2005F/84MDGA (+)33 mN/A
Jayaraman et al. [45], 2005M/48MDN/AN/AN/A
Jang et al. [10], 2010M/50WDNEC (+)N/AN/A
Doggui et al. [12], 2008M/55N/AN/A3 m (DOD)Chemo
Mardi et al. [46], 2008F/47WDGA (+)N/AN/A
Mróz et al. [8], 2009M/56PDGA (+)N/AN/A
Lee et al. [33], 2011M/62PDN/AN/A
Ünal et al. [35], 2013F/51MDGA (+)5 m (DOD)N/A

N/A: Not available.
WD: Well differentiated.
MD: Moderately differentiated.
PD: Poorly differentiated.
NEC: Neuroendocrine carcinoma.
GA: Gastric adenocarcinoma.
m: Months.
DOD: Dead of disease.