Primary isolated asymptomatic gastric tuberculosis of the cardia mimicking gastric stromal tumor: a rare case report and literature review

Abstract Background Primary isolated gastric TB of the cardia presenting as a submucosal tumor is extremely rare. Case presentation A 60-year-old female was admitted to our department; endoscopy revealed a smooth protruding lesion in the gastric cardia. The patient was diagnosed with a gastric cardi...

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Main Authors: Mingnan Lv, Kejiang Tang, Yajie Meng, Chuan Tian, Min Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-04-01
Series:BMC Gastroenterology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12876-020-01242-x