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Two cases of gastrointestinal stromal tumor of the stomach with lymph node metastasis.
Hepato-gastroenterology - 1 Jun 2007
Sato Tomoi, Kanda Tatsuo, Nishikura Ken, Hirota Seiichi, Hashimoto Keiko, Nahagawa Satoru, Ohashi Manabu, Hatakeyama Katsuyoshi
Abstract excerpt
Lymph node metastasis from gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) is quite rare. We report two cases of gastric GIST with nodal metastases and results of their mutation analyses. In the first case (78-year-old male), a mass 4.0 cm in size was located at the gastric cardia. Proximal gastrectomy was performed. In the other case (40-year-old female), the gastric tumor was 2.5 cm in size. Computed tomography scan...
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