Gastrointestinal stromal tumor of the anal wall in a Nigerian

Documented reports of gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) are relatively few in the sub-Saharan continent. The body of evidence points towards anal wall involvement being a rarity indeed. In this article we document a 61 year old Nigerian man who presented with bleeding per rectum and in whom the...

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Autores principales: Oluyemi, Aderemi, Keshinro, Samuel, Jimoh, Abimbola, Oshun, Philip
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4747482/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26893795
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2015.22.161.8071
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author Oluyemi, Aderemi
Keshinro, Samuel
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Oshun, Philip
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description Documented reports of gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) are relatively few in the sub-Saharan continent. The body of evidence points towards anal wall involvement being a rarity indeed. In this article we document a 61 year old Nigerian man who presented with bleeding per rectum and in whom the histological features (including immunohistochemistry) of the biopsied anal lesion was GIST.
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spelling pubmed-47474822016-02-18 Gastrointestinal stromal tumor of the anal wall in a Nigerian Oluyemi, Aderemi Keshinro, Samuel Jimoh, Abimbola Oshun, Philip Pan Afr Med J Case Report Documented reports of gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) are relatively few in the sub-Saharan continent. The body of evidence points towards anal wall involvement being a rarity indeed. In this article we document a 61 year old Nigerian man who presented with bleeding per rectum and in whom the histological features (including immunohistochemistry) of the biopsied anal lesion was GIST. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2015-10-20 /pmc/articles/PMC4747482/ /pubmed/26893795 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2015.22.161.8071 Text en © Aderemi Oluyemi 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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title_fullStr Gastrointestinal stromal tumor of the anal wall in a Nigerian
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4747482/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26893795
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2015.22.161.8071
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