title: Pancreatic extra-gastrointestinal stromal tumour with documentation of C-kit mutation: a case report.
abstract: Gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GIST) are the most common mesenchymal neoplasms located in the alimentary tract. Stromal tumours that arise outside the gastrointestinal tract as primary tumour are designated as extra-gastrointestinal stromal tumours (EGIST). The EGIST are located in mesentry, omentum, retroperitoneum and rarely in pancreas. Only 19 cases of pancreatic EGIST (pEGIST) have been reported in the literature. Of these, there were only two cases of pEGIST with documentation of molecular alteration in C-Kit gene. We here report a third case of primary pEGIST with documentation of C-kit mutation.
authors.affiliation: Consultant, Department of Pathology, Oncquest Lab, Mohan Dai Oswal Hospital , Sherpur Chowk, Ludhiana, Punjab, India .
authors.forename: Preeti
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Joseph
authors.affiliation: Senior Consultant, Department of Pathology, Oncquest Lab, Mohan Dai Oswal Hospital , Ludhiana, Punjab, India .
authors.forename: Richa
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Goyal
authors.affiliation: Senior Resident, Department of Pathology, Oncquest Lab, Mohan Dai Oswal Hospital , Ludhiana, Punjab, India .
authors.forename: Preeti
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bansal
authors.affiliation: Senior Consultant, Department of Pathology, Oncquest Lab , New Delhi, India .
authors.forename: Rajni
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Parmar
authors.affiliation: Director, Molecular Biology and R & D, Oncquest Lab , New Delhi, India .
authors.forename: Sarjana
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dutt
keywords: C-Kit mutation; CD117; Pancreas; pEGIST