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The frequency of detection stromal gastrointestinal tumors in children and adolescents is about 0.4% the total number diagnosed GISTs. These can occur throughout tract. During instrumental research, misinterpretation tumor origin possible. For this reason, consistent use a variety non-invasive diagnostic methods extremely important preoperative period. We present case report rare GIST pediatric...

Gastrointestinal stromal tumors are rare intestinal tumors. There have been reports of this tumor occurring with other conditions and tumors. We report a 55-year-old man who presented with a gastric stromal tumor and cecal adenocarcinoma, necessitating right hemicolectomy and partial gastrectomy at the same sitting.

INTRODUCTION Adjuvant imatinib improves recurrence-free survival of patients following resection of primary KIT-positive gastrointestinal stromal tumors. However, it is unknown whether patients who previously received adjuvant imatinib therapy will respond to imatinib rechallenge as treatment for recurrent disease. Here we present the first report documenting the benefits of imatinib rechalleng...

RationaleCalcifying fibrous tumor (CFT) is a rare benign soft tissue mesenchymal neoplasm. Although the gastrointestinal (GI) tract is the most common predilection site of CFT, the clinicians, even including pathologist, generally consider it as GI stromal tumor (GIST) or other submucosal tumors such as schwannoma and leiomyoma. PatientconcernsA 55-year-old man presented with complaints of epig...

OBJECTIVE Gastrointestinal stromal tumors are believed to play a role in immunosuppression with their local effect. In some cancers with associated inflammation, an increased pretreatment neutrophil lymphocyte ratio is considered as an indicator of poor prognosis. The aim of our study was to assess the relationship of increased blood neutrophil lymphocyte ratio with disease prognosis in patient...