1 Sep 2008
Case ReportGastrointestinal stromal tumor of the gastric serosa protruding to the greater omentum. Report of a giant tumor with a rare histological pattern.
Emmanouel Pavlakis 1Efthimios Avgerinos 1Athanasios Stathoulopoulos 1Dimitrios Godevenos 1Kalliopi Diamantopoulou 1Euphemia Thomas-Tsagli 1Nicolas Condilis 2Dimitrios Smailis 1Efstratios Christianakis 1Panagiotis Tsatsoulis 1Panagiotis Skandalakis 1Dimitrios Filippou 1
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1 2nd Department of Surgery, “Asclepeion” General Hospital, Athens; Department of Pathology, “Asclepeion” General Hospital, Athens; 1st Surgical Department, Pireaus General Hospital “Tzaneio”, Greece
2 Department of Familiar Medicine, Peripheral General State Hospital of Nikaia “Saint Panteleimon”, Piraeus, Greece
Ann. Ital. Chir., 2008, 79(5), 101769;
Published: 1 Sep 2008
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Abstract
We report an unusual case of a 76 year old woman admitted to our hospital for investigation of anemia and palpable epigastric mass. Intraoperatively a huge (19 cm), well defined tumor was found adhering to the stomach wall, protruding into the greater omentum and compressing the transverse colon. A tumorectomy was performed and the greater omentum was removed due to its close relation. Pathology revealed a high risk Gastrointestinal Stromal tumor of the gastric serosa. Histologically the tumor was of mixed type (spindle and epitheliod cells) with hemangiopericytomatoid pattern peripherically, variably myxoid stroma, central necrosis and cytologic pleomorphism. On immunohistochemical examination there was a consistent positivity for c-kit (CD-117) and CD-34, but without myogenic or neural differentiation. We consider this case unusual because of its huge size, its gastric serosal location and its extremely rare histological pattern.
Keywords
- C-kit
- Gastric serosa
- Gastrointestinal stromal tumor
- Imatinib mesylate
- Interstitial cells of Cajal
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