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Revista Cubana de Cirugía
versión On-line ISSN 1561-2945
Resumen
MORENO GALEANA, Salvador; REGALADO AQUINO, Adrián y RIVERA MARTINEZ, Juan Carlos. Gastrointestinal stroma tumor in a hospital of Mexico. Rev Cubana Cir [online]. 2021, vol.60, n.4 Epub 01-Dic-2021. ISSN 1561-2945.
Introduction:
Gastrointestinal stromal tumors are neoplasms of benign or malignant behavior. They originate from the interstitial cells of Cajal in the digestive tract.
Objective:
The objective of this work is to describe two different forms of clinical presentation.
Case report:
case 1: 65-year-old female patient who presented for compression symptoms of the upper digestive tract due to gastric GIST; case 2: 56-year-old male who presented with bleeding from the middle digestive tract caused by intestinal GIST.
Conclusions:
GISTs have different clinical presentation. Its treatment is essentially surgical and in some cases supplemented with targeted molecular therapy.
Palabras clave : GIST; CD 117; gastrointestinal stromal tumors; surgery; tyrosine kinase inhibitors; treatment.
