Gastrointestinal stromal tumor mimicking gynecological disease.
Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are common mesenchymal tumors of the digestive tract. These tumors occasionally present a pelvic mass and leading to the misdiagnosis of gynecologic diseases. Two patients with GIST in the small intestine giving an impression of an ovarian fibroma and a uterine leiomyoma respectively were diagnosed correctly at the surgery. In the patients with a pelvic mass, especially if unusual symptoms and laboratory data being not compatible with gynecological disease, the possibility of diseases other than a gynecologic disease has to be considered.
Morimura
Yutaka
Y
Department of Gynecology, Tsuboi Cancer Center Hospital, Koriyma, Japan.
Yamashita
Naoyuki
N
Koyama
Nobuatsu
N
Ohzeki
Takeharu
T
Takayama
Tomoko
T
Fujimori
Keiya
K
Sato
Akira
A
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D046152:Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D005831:Genital Diseases, Female / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D014463:Ultrasonography