A Pancreatic Head Tumor Arising as a Duodenal GIST: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are rare mesenchymal tumors of the gastrointestinal tract that originate from the intestinal cells of Cajal (ICC) (Fletcher et al., 2002). Only a few cases have been described with extragastrointestinal stromal tumors (Kim et al., 2012; Soufi et al., 2013; Men...

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Main Authors: Fabian Bormann, Wolfgang Wild, Hüseyin Aksoy, Pius Dörr, Sanja Schmeck, Matthias Schwarzbach
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2014-01-01
Series:Case Reports in Medicine
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/420295