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Case Reports
. 2011 May 26:9:60.
doi: 10.1186/1477-7819-9-60.

Synchronous gastric adenocarcinoma and gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) of the stomach: a case report

Theodosios Theodosopoulos  1 , Dionysios Dellaportas, Vasiliki Psychogiou, Konstantinos Gennatas, Agathi Kondi-Pafiti, Georgios Gkiokas, Ioannis Papaconstantinou, Georgios Polymeneas
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Synchronous gastric adenocarcinoma and gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) of the stomach: a case report

Theodosios Theodosopoulos et al. World J Surg Oncol. .

Abstract

Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are rare mesenchymal neoplasms of the gastrointestinal tract (1%), and stomach is the most common location involved. However, the co-existence of gastric adenocarcinoma and GIST is very rare. A case of an 80-year-old male with a simultaneous presentation of a gastric adenocarcinoma and GIST is presented. Various hypotheses have been proposed in order to explain this rare simultaneous development, but even though it's cause has not been proven yet.

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Microscopic image of adenocarcinoma
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Microscopic image of GIST
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