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Signet-ring cell adenocarcinoma infiltrating through the muscularis propria (MP) into pericolic adipose tissue (PC) and involving regional lymph nodes (arrow). The signet-ring cells are seen infiltrating through tissue and extending to the serosal surface (A) and are seen floating in mucin (B).
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Therefore, extended right hemicolectomy with total omentectomy and partial peritonectomy was performed, and pathologic analysis of the surgical specimens confirmed the diagnosis of poorly differentiated signet-ring cell adenocarcinoma at the hepatic flexure with penetration to the serosal surface (Figure 1).