Chronic inflammatory bowel disease is challenging to treat and carries a risk of complications, including the development of ...

Objective: To investigate the methodology and outcomes of Da Vinci robotic-assisted resection of gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs ... wall of the lower gastric body, characterized by limited ...

Doctors would call this symptom 'abdominal pain,' because ... These uncommon tumors start in very early forms of cells in the wall of the stomach called interstitial cells of Cajal. Some GISTs are ...

in the wall of the GI tract. This can also result in severe abdominal pain. Emergency surgery might be needed in these situations. Although many of the possible symptoms of GISTs (like belly pain and ...

Axial view of the stromal tumor in abdominal CT ... allows confirming the diagnosis. GISTs are usually well-circumscribed without encapsulation, they grow preferentially on the serosal side of the ...

The presentation in all these cases was abdominal pain on examination. Tumor size was ... the management of GIST perforation requires immediate small-bowel resection with primary anastomosis. 7 The ...

The patient was examined physically, which showed a conjunctival pallor and an ill-defined abdominal ... stratification. GIST is a rare type of soft-tissue tumor that develops from the interstitial ...

They affect the abdominal wall by 50%, retroperitoneum by 9% and the mesentery ... One of the differential diagnoses to be taken into account are gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) that share a ...

As one of the most common mesenchymal malignancies in the digestive system, gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) occur throughout ... and then several laparoscopic trocars penetrated both the ...

Stomach cancer ... the stomach wall and into lymph nodes near the tumor or into neighboring organs. Stage 4: Cancer has spread to distant parts of the body such as the liver, lungs, or lining of the ...