Gastrointestinal stromal tumor of gastric origin: case report

Abstract

Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) are rare, with unpredictable behavior, most of them asymptomatic or nonspecific symptoms. They may arise in any place of digestive tube, and the standard treatment is the complete surgical resection, however recurrences and metastases are frequent. The following case is a report from an elderly patient with growing and painful abdominal mass on physical examination, and the result of complementary imaging tests suggests that this is GIST. Submitted to surgical therapy for resection of the lesion and follow-up with imatinib mesylate (Glivec®).