Gastric glomus tumor is a rare neoplasm of the gastrointestinal tract that frequently mimics other mesenchymal lesions clinically and radiologically. We present a 70-year-old woman with an incidentally detected submucosal tumor of the antrum that was thought to be a gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST). The lesion measured 1.9 cm radiographically and was monitored over a period of 3 years. Mul...

or communicated with. Fifty-one per cent had had a previous abdominal operation. It is concluded that oesophagoscopy is essential to confirm the diagnosis and exclude the presence of oesophagitis, stricture, or neoplasm before beginning any treatment, be it medical or surgical. Anti-obesity measures are advisable before operative treatment. A left transthoracic, Allison type of repair gives exc...

INTRODUCTION Gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) is the commonest mesenchymal tumor of GI tract and 60-70% of it seen in the stomach, whereas Gastric schwannoma is a benign, slow growing and one of the rare neoplasms of stomach. Age distribution, clinical, radiological features and gross appearance of both tumors are similar. PRESENTATION OF CASE We report a rare case of gastric schwannoma ...

OBJECTIVE To compare clinical characteristics, including postoperative outcomes, in Korean patients 65 years and older with those of younger patients. DESIGN A retrospective medical record review. SETTING An adult university hospital. PARTICIPANTS All patients who underwent various operative procedures, especially for stomach cancer, acute surgical abdomen, and abdominal wall hernia, in t...

BACKGROUND Diagnosis of intestinal metaplasia and dysplasia via conventional endoscopy is characterized by low interobserver agreement and poor correlation with histopathologic findings. Chromoendoscopy significantly enhances the visibility of mucosa irregularities, like metaplasia and dysplasia mucosa. Magnetically guided capsule endoscopy (MGCE) offers an alternative technology for upper GI e...

intraocular metastatic tumors have been increasingly reported in the recent past. unlike choroidal metastasis, metastasis to retina is very rare and so far has been reported in very few case reports only. case presentation : a 56 year-old male who presented with a history of adenocarcinoma of the cecum and underwent lap colectomy for the primary cecal tumor, received adjuvant chemotherapy for a...

PURPOSE Our goal was to determine whether dynamic MR subtraction images could be used to detect and stage gastric tumors. METHOD Dynamic MR subtraction images were prospectively performed in 20 patients without gastric lesions and in 39 patients with gastric tumors. The flat- or depressed-type early gastric cancers were excluded. The MR findings were assessed for layered pattern of the normal...

Peritoneal metastasis from gastric cancer is often undetectable by routine imaging studies. Even a microscopic metastasis detected only by cytologic examination of the peritoneal washes denotes a dismal prognosis, and surgery is ruled out as futile for patients who turn out to be cytology-positive by staging laparoscopy. On the other hand, recent developments in cancer chemotherapy have improve...

BACKGROUND The efficacy of operative resection of liver metastasis from colorectal cancer has been established. However, a treatment for liver metastasis from gastric cancer has not yet been established. In this study, we evaluated the efficacy of hepatic arterial infusion for synchronous hepatic metastasis from gastric cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS This study consisted of 37 patients [HAI gro...

Background: In many countries gastric cancer has the highest incidence among the gastrointestinal cancers and is the second most common cancer in Iran. The aim of this study was to identify and map high risk gastric cancer regions at the county-level in Iran. Methods: In this study we analyzed gastric cancer data for Iran in the years 2003-2010. Areato- area Poisson kriging and Besag, York and ...