The Bleeding Bowel: A Rare Case of Neurofibromatosis Type 1-associated Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor in a Young Male

Individuals with neurofibromatosis type 1 are much more likely to develop gastrointestinal stromal tumors than those without this condition. The median age for patients with neurofibromatosis type 1-associated gastrointestinal stromal tumors is approximately 65 years. We present a case of a young ma...

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Autores principales: Kalayanamitra, Ricci, Shahid, Zainab, Shah, Neal, Patel, Ravi, Jain, Rohit
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Neurology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6687427/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31417813
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4868
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author Kalayanamitra, Ricci
Shahid, Zainab
Shah, Neal
Patel, Ravi
Jain, Rohit
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Shahid, Zainab
Shah, Neal
Patel, Ravi
Jain, Rohit
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description Individuals with neurofibromatosis type 1 are much more likely to develop gastrointestinal stromal tumors than those without this condition. The median age for patients with neurofibromatosis type 1-associated gastrointestinal stromal tumors is approximately 65 years. We present a case of a young male with a history of neurofibromatosis type 1 who presented with symptomatic anemia and melena and was ultimately found to have a gastrointestinal stromal tumor.
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spelling pubmed-66874272019-08-15 The Bleeding Bowel: A Rare Case of Neurofibromatosis Type 1-associated Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor in a Young Male Kalayanamitra, Ricci Shahid, Zainab Shah, Neal Patel, Ravi Jain, Rohit Cureus Neurology Individuals with neurofibromatosis type 1 are much more likely to develop gastrointestinal stromal tumors than those without this condition. The median age for patients with neurofibromatosis type 1-associated gastrointestinal stromal tumors is approximately 65 years. We present a case of a young male with a history of neurofibromatosis type 1 who presented with symptomatic anemia and melena and was ultimately found to have a gastrointestinal stromal tumor. Cureus 2019-06-10 /pmc/articles/PMC6687427/ /pubmed/31417813 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4868 Text en Copyright © 2019, Kalayanamitra et al. 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 author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Neurology
Kalayanamitra, Ricci
Shahid, Zainab
Shah, Neal
Patel, Ravi
Jain, Rohit
The Bleeding Bowel: A Rare Case of Neurofibromatosis Type 1-associated Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor in a Young Male
title The Bleeding Bowel: A Rare Case of Neurofibromatosis Type 1-associated Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor in a Young Male
title_full The Bleeding Bowel: A Rare Case of Neurofibromatosis Type 1-associated Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor in a Young Male
title_fullStr The Bleeding Bowel: A Rare Case of Neurofibromatosis Type 1-associated Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor in a Young Male
title_full_unstemmed The Bleeding Bowel: A Rare Case of Neurofibromatosis Type 1-associated Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor in a Young Male
title_short The Bleeding Bowel: A Rare Case of Neurofibromatosis Type 1-associated Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor in a Young Male
title_sort bleeding bowel: a rare case of neurofibromatosis type 1-associated gastrointestinal stromal tumor in a young male
topic Neurology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6687427/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31417813
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4868
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