Vagaries of the natural history of signet ring cell carcinoma of the stomach

Abstract

In our environment signet ring cell mucin producing stomach cancers usually, present with advanced disease often with transperitoneal spread and krukenburg tumours.1We present a patient who had a bizarre “benign” course of a biopsy proven signet cell cancer, who one year after diagnosis had a curative resection for a cancer confined to the mucosa.