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Spontaneous intratumoral bleeding and rupture of giant gastric stromal tumor (> 30 cm) in a young patient

BACKGROUND: Few cases of GIST bigger than 15 cm have been reported in medical literature, all primarily in elderly patients. We report an unusual case, in which a giant gastric GIST – in a young patient – presented as spontaneous intratumoral bleeding followed by intraluminal rupture. CASE PRESENTAT...

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Autores principales: Cruz, Ruy J, Vincenzi, Rodrigo, Ketzer, Bernardo M, Cecilio, Andre L, Cepeda, Lourdes A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2486266/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18627622
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-6-76