Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prognosis of Patients with Primary Familial Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor: A Case Report and Literature Review.

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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors are the most common mesenchymal tumors of the digestive tract, most of which are sporadic, and familial GISTs with germline mutations are rarely seen. Here, we report a 26-year-old female with a germline p. W557R mutation in exon 11 of the KIT gene. The proband and her father and sister presented with multifocal GIST and pigmented nevi. All 3 patients underwent surgery and imatinib...

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