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Figure 1. An 88-year-old Japanese woman had a six-week history of black stools and fatigue. Her hemoglobin level was 6.7 g per deciliter, and a fecal occult-blood test (Hemoccult) was positive on two occasions. A chest x-ray film showed a round, soft-tissue mass (arrow in Panel A) within the gastric air bubble and no clinically significant intrathoracic abnormalities. An upper gastrointestinal series revealed a round, lobulated mass arising from the right lateral and posterior walls of the gastric fundus. A computed tomographic scan with oral and intravenous contrast medium revealed an intraluminal mass (arrow in Panel B) with a . . . [Full Text of this Article] |