Synchronous occurrence of advanced adenocarcinoma with a stromal tumor in the stomach: a case report.
Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are rare mesenchymal neoplasms of the digestive tract. Synchronous occurrence of a gastrointestinal stromal tumor with a tumor of different histogenesis is very rare and has been documented in the literature mainly in case reports. We present the case of a 78-year old female patient who underwent surgery for an advanced gastric carcinoma during which a gastric stromal tumor was incidentally discovered. A review of the literature is also conducted on the extremely rare synchronous occurrence of malignant tumors of different histogenesis in the stomach.
2nd Department of Surgery, 417 Army Veterans General Hospital NIMTS, Athens, Greece. nikos_salemis@hotmail.com
Nikolaos S
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Salemis
Stavros
S
Gourgiotis
Evangelos
E
Tsiambas
Andreas
A
Karameris
Efstathios
E
Tsohataridis
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D016099:Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal / Q000379:methods; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D005743:Gastrectomy; D046152:Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed