Gastrointestinal stromal tumor: an incidental finding during laparoscopic bariatric surgery

Gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) is the most common mesenchymal tumor of the gastrointestinal tract. Lack of clinical symptoms and findings on preoperative upper endoscopy makes its diagnosis difficult in bariatric patients. A laparoscopic resection of the gastric GIST during bariatric surgery...

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Autor principal: Saurabh, Shireesh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Clinical Images
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5676255/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29152299
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1194
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description Gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) is the most common mesenchymal tumor of the gastrointestinal tract. Lack of clinical symptoms and findings on preoperative upper endoscopy makes its diagnosis difficult in bariatric patients. A laparoscopic resection of the gastric GIST during bariatric surgery is associated with good long‐term prognosis.
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spelling pubmed-56762552017-11-17 Gastrointestinal stromal tumor: an incidental finding during laparoscopic bariatric surgery Saurabh, Shireesh Clin Case Rep Clinical Images Gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) is the most common mesenchymal tumor of the gastrointestinal tract. Lack of clinical symptoms and findings on preoperative upper endoscopy makes its diagnosis difficult in bariatric patients. A laparoscopic resection of the gastric GIST during bariatric surgery is associated with good long‐term prognosis. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017-09-25 /pmc/articles/PMC5676255/ /pubmed/29152299 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1194 Text en © 2017 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumor: an incidental finding during laparoscopic bariatric surgery
title Gastrointestinal stromal tumor: an incidental finding during laparoscopic bariatric surgery
title_full Gastrointestinal stromal tumor: an incidental finding during laparoscopic bariatric surgery
title_fullStr Gastrointestinal stromal tumor: an incidental finding during laparoscopic bariatric surgery
title_full_unstemmed Gastrointestinal stromal tumor: an incidental finding during laparoscopic bariatric surgery
title_short Gastrointestinal stromal tumor: an incidental finding during laparoscopic bariatric surgery
title_sort gastrointestinal stromal tumor: an incidental finding during laparoscopic bariatric surgery
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5676255/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29152299
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1194
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