<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Gastrointestinal stromal tumors are an uncommon sarcomas with mesenchymal origin that arises in the gastrointestinal tract. Recently, most of the published reports describe such tumors located outside of the gastrointestinal tract, with similar pathological characteristics and are named extra-gastrointestinal stromal tumors. We report the case of a patient suffering for a giant retroperitoneal extra-gastrointestinal stromal tumor, complicated with intra-tumoral hemorrhage. The particularity of this case is the presence of the intra-tumoral hemorrhage in a retroperitoneal extragastrointestinal stromal tumor that grew rapidly in volume (in 1 week).</p></abstract>

Gastrointestinal stromal tumors are an uncommon sarcomas with mesenchymal origin that arises in the gastrointestinal tract. Recently, most of the published reports describe such tumors located outside of the gastrointestinal tract, with similar pathological characteristics and are named extra-gastrointestinal stromal tumors. We report the case of a patient suffering for a giant retroperitoneal extra-gastrointestinal stromal tumor, complicated with intra-tumoral hemorrhage. The particularity of this case is the presence of the intra-tumoral hemorrhage in a retroperitoneal extragastrointestinal stromal tumor that grew rapidly in volume (in 1 week).

Extra-Gastrointestinal retroperitoneal giant stromal tumor complicated with intra-tumoral hemorrhage: case report and literature review

Surgical Clinic, University County Hospital Mureş, Târgu Mureş, România

Morphopathology Department, University County Hospital Mureş, Târgu Mureş, România

Radiology Department, University County Hospital Mureş, Târgu Mureş, România

Department of Anatomy, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Târgu Mureş, Târgu Mureş România

ARS Medica Tomitana

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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors are an uncommon sarcomas with mesenchymal origin that arises in the gastrointestinal tract. Recently, most of the published...

Extra-Gastrointestinal retroperitoneal giant stromal tumor complicated with intra-tumoral hemorrhage: case report and literature review

Published Online: May 09, 2015

Page range: 1 - 6

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/arsm-2015-0011

Keywords
extra-gastrointestinal, stromal, tumor, intratumoral hemorrhage

© by B.A. Suciu

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Extra-Gastrointestinal retroperitoneal giant stromal tumor complicated with intra-tumoral hemorrhage: case report and literature review

Published Online: May 09, 2015

Page range: 1 - 6

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/arsm-2015-0011

Keywordsextra-gastrointestinal, stromal, tumor, intratumoral hemorrhage

© by B.A. Suciu

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
extra-gastrointestinal, stromal, tumor, intratumoral hemorrhage