title: A rare cause of gastrointestinal bleeding, "GANT".
abstract: Acute gastrointestinal hemorrhage is frequently seen in emergency surgical conditions. Benign pathologies are generally responsible in etiologic factors. Our case is a GANT. GANT is a mesenchymal tumor originated from Cajal cells or precursors of them. Cajal cells are pacemaker cells in the intestinal wall. Because GANT is a very rare tumor, we would like to report our case to the medical literature. We think very rare cases and treatments of its as like our case create view point states in etiology of acute gastrointestinal hemorrhage.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Tepecik Training and Research Hospital, İzmir, Turkey. fuipek@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Fuat
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: İpekçi
authors.forename: Ömer
authors.initials: Ö
authors.lastname: Engin
authors.forename: Yahya
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Çapkis
authors.forename: Demet
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Etit
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001342:Autonomic Nervous System Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D004379:Duodenal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology*; D046152:Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000150:complications*