Gastrointestinal Autonomic Nerve Tumor of the Colon: A Rare Cause of Persistent Abdominal Pain in a Child

Gastrointestinal autonomic nerve tumor (GANT) is extremely rare and considered a variant of gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs). GANT originates from the intestinal autonomic nervous system mostly of small intestine or the stomach. We report a colonic GANT diagnosed in a 5-year-old child who pre...

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Autores principales: Guanà, Riccardo, Teruzzi, Elisabetta, Garofalo, Salvatore, Morra, Isabella, Lemini, Riccardo, Schleef, Jürgen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: EL-MED-Pub 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4715890/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26816681
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author Guanà, Riccardo
Teruzzi, Elisabetta
Garofalo, Salvatore
Morra, Isabella
Lemini, Riccardo
Schleef, Jürgen
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Teruzzi, Elisabetta
Garofalo, Salvatore
Morra, Isabella
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description Gastrointestinal autonomic nerve tumor (GANT) is extremely rare and considered a variant of gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs). GANT originates from the intestinal autonomic nervous system mostly of small intestine or the stomach. We report a colonic GANT diagnosed in a 5-year-old child who presented with abdominal pain and fever for a long period. Colonic resection and end to end anastomosis proved curative without the need of chemo-radiotherapy. Given the rarity of the tumor, the patient is on our long term follow-up.
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spelling pubmed-47158902016-01-26 Gastrointestinal Autonomic Nerve Tumor of the Colon: A Rare Cause of Persistent Abdominal Pain in a Child Guanà, Riccardo Teruzzi, Elisabetta Garofalo, Salvatore Morra, Isabella Lemini, Riccardo Schleef, Jürgen APSP J Case Rep Case Report Gastrointestinal autonomic nerve tumor (GANT) is extremely rare and considered a variant of gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs). GANT originates from the intestinal autonomic nervous system mostly of small intestine or the stomach. We report a colonic GANT diagnosed in a 5-year-old child who presented with abdominal pain and fever for a long period. Colonic resection and end to end anastomosis proved curative without the need of chemo-radiotherapy. Given the rarity of the tumor, the patient is on our long term follow-up. EL-MED-Pub 2016-01-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4715890/ /pubmed/26816681 Text en Copyright © 2016 AJCR http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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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Guanà, Riccardo
Teruzzi, Elisabetta
Garofalo, Salvatore
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Lemini, Riccardo
Schleef, Jürgen
Gastrointestinal Autonomic Nerve Tumor of the Colon: A Rare Cause of Persistent Abdominal Pain in a Child
title Gastrointestinal Autonomic Nerve Tumor of the Colon: A Rare Cause of Persistent Abdominal Pain in a Child
title_full Gastrointestinal Autonomic Nerve Tumor of the Colon: A Rare Cause of Persistent Abdominal Pain in a Child
title_fullStr Gastrointestinal Autonomic Nerve Tumor of the Colon: A Rare Cause of Persistent Abdominal Pain in a Child
title_full_unstemmed Gastrointestinal Autonomic Nerve Tumor of the Colon: A Rare Cause of Persistent Abdominal Pain in a Child
title_short Gastrointestinal Autonomic Nerve Tumor of the Colon: A Rare Cause of Persistent Abdominal Pain in a Child
title_sort gastrointestinal autonomic nerve tumor of the colon: a rare cause of persistent abdominal pain in a child
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4715890/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26816681
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