title: Synchronous occurrence of small intestinal stromal tumor and cecal adenocarcinoma.
abstract: Synchronous development of gastrointestinal stromal tumors with other tumors in the digestive tract is relatively rare, and often occurs in the stomach. We report a 76-year-old woman, who suffered from the exceedingly rare synchronous development of small intestinal stromal tumor and cecal adenocarcinoma. The patient presented with intestinal obstructive symptoms. The pre-operative abdominal ultrasonography demonstrated a very large heterogenous periumbilical mass. Laparotomy was performed and the evaluation of the surgical specimen revealed a huge 14-cm subserosal mass of high risk ileal stromal tumor along with cecal adenocarcinoma with regional lymph node metastasis. The patient died within 3 months of diagnosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. shifteh2000@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Shifteh
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Vahidi
authors.forename: Azadeh
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rakhshan
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D000368:Aged; D002430:Cecal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D046152:Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007078:Ileal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D007813:Laparotomy; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery