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Appendiceal GIST: report of an exceptional case and review of the literature

Gastro-intestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) of the appendix are a rare entity. To date, only eight cases has been described in the literature, most of which have been of the benign type. We report a new case of an appendiceal GIST in a 75-year-old man. The tumor was discovered when the patient presente...

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Autores principales: Bouassida, Mahdi, Chtourou, Mohamed Fadhel, Chalbi, Emna, Chebbi, Fathi, Hamzaoui, Lamine, Sassi, Selim, Charfi, Lamia, Mighri, Mohamed Mongi, Touinsi, Hassen, Sassi, Adok
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3810228/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24171067
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2013.15.85.2430
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author Bouassida, Mahdi
Chtourou, Mohamed Fadhel
Chalbi, Emna
Chebbi, Fathi
Hamzaoui, Lamine
Sassi, Selim
Charfi, Lamia
Mighri, Mohamed Mongi
Touinsi, Hassen
Sassi, Adok
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Chtourou, Mohamed Fadhel
Chalbi, Emna
Chebbi, Fathi
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Sassi, Selim
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description Gastro-intestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) of the appendix are a rare entity. To date, only eight cases has been described in the literature, most of which have been of the benign type. We report a new case of an appendiceal GIST in a 75-year-old man. The tumor was discovered when the patient presented with acute appendiceacal peritonitis. Preoperative diagnosis of appendiceal GIST was rarely done as tumors were usually associated with appendicitis-like symptoms.
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spelling pubmed-38102282013-10-29 Appendiceal GIST: report of an exceptional case and review of the literature Bouassida, Mahdi Chtourou, Mohamed Fadhel Chalbi, Emna Chebbi, Fathi Hamzaoui, Lamine Sassi, Selim Charfi, Lamia Mighri, Mohamed Mongi Touinsi, Hassen Sassi, Adok Pan Afr Med J Case Report Gastro-intestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) of the appendix are a rare entity. To date, only eight cases has been described in the literature, most of which have been of the benign type. We report a new case of an appendiceal GIST in a 75-year-old man. The tumor was discovered when the patient presented with acute appendiceacal peritonitis. Preoperative diagnosis of appendiceal GIST was rarely done as tumors were usually associated with appendicitis-like symptoms. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2013-07-03 /pmc/articles/PMC3810228/ /pubmed/24171067 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2013.15.85.2430 Text en © Mahdi Bouassida et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Bouassida, Mahdi
Chtourou, Mohamed Fadhel
Chalbi, Emna
Chebbi, Fathi
Hamzaoui, Lamine
Sassi, Selim
Charfi, Lamia
Mighri, Mohamed Mongi
Touinsi, Hassen
Sassi, Adok
Appendiceal GIST: report of an exceptional case and review of the literature
title Appendiceal GIST: report of an exceptional case and review of the literature
title_full Appendiceal GIST: report of an exceptional case and review of the literature
title_fullStr Appendiceal GIST: report of an exceptional case and review of the literature
title_full_unstemmed Appendiceal GIST: report of an exceptional case and review of the literature
title_short Appendiceal GIST: report of an exceptional case and review of the literature
title_sort appendiceal gist: report of an exceptional case and review of the literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3810228/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24171067
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2013.15.85.2430
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