A case of early gastric cancer with a single giant lymph node metastasis

Early gastric cancer (EGC) is often associated with lymphatic metastasis, but it is extremely rare to be found as a single giant lymph node. Cancer often becomes more malignant in metastatic lesions than in primary lesions, and retrodifferentiation to the fetal gastrointestinal tract during the metastatic process has been reported in gastric cancer. We report an extremely rare case of EGC with a 13-cm giant lymph node metastasis in which an...