An uncommon cause of acute abdomen: Isolated small bowel obstruction due to gastrointestinal stromal tumor
Full Text (PDF)
Murat Okudan, Fatih Taşkesen 1 * , Tufan Egeli, Zülfü Arıkanoğlu, Abdullah Böyük, Akın Önder
More Detail
1 Dicle Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Genel Cerrahi Anabilim Dalı, Diyarbakır, Turkey* Corresponding Author

Abstract

Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) are mesenchymal tumors with original histologic features which located primarily in the gastrointestinal tract and abdomen. Most common place for GIST is stomach (50%) and then the small intestine (25%) but GIST can be anywhere in the gastrointestinal system. Most of the patients shall be operated with other diagnoses or symptoms of obstruction. Here, clinical appearance of a case of localized jejunal stromal tumor is reviewed according to view of the literature.

Keywords

License

This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Article Type: Case Report

J Clin Exp Invest, Volume 3, Issue 1, March 2012, 130-132

https://doi.org/10.5799/ahinjs.01.2012.01.0130

Publication date: 13 Mar 2012

Article Views: 2343

Article Downloads: 1190

Open Access References How to cite this article