Synchronous gastric adenocarcinoma and gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) of the stomach: A case report

Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are rare mesenchymal neoplasms of the gastrointestinal tract (1%), and stomach is the most common location involved. However, the co-existence of gastric adenocarcinoma and GIST is very rare. A case of an 80-year-old male with a simultaneous presentation of a...

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Autores principales: Theodosopoulos, Theodosios, Dellaportas, Dionysios, Psychogiou, Vasiliki, Gennatas, Konstantinos, Kondi-Pafiti, Agathi, Gkiokas, Georgios, Papaconstantinou, Ioannis, Polymeneas, Georgios
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3115894/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21615935
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-9-60
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Sumario:Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are rare mesenchymal neoplasms of the gastrointestinal tract (1%), and stomach is the most common location involved. However, the co-existence of gastric adenocarcinoma and GIST is very rare. A case of an 80-year-old male with a simultaneous presentation of a gastric adenocarcinoma and GIST is presented. Various hypotheses have been proposed in order to explain this rare simultaneous development, but even though it's cause has not been proven yet.

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