Broad ligament Extraintestinal Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor (EGIST): Case report and brief overview of EGIST

Broad ligament Extraintestinal Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor (EGIST): Case report and brief overview of EGIST

•Highly suspicious pelvic mass may require preoperative biopsy for diagnosis.•Neoadjuvant imatinib lowers EGIST tumor burden in extensive disease preoperatively.•EGIST resection aims at complete surgical resection and negative margins.•This case was managed with complete surgical resection and adjuv...

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Veröffentlicht in:Gynecologic oncology reports 2020-08, Vol.33, p.100622, Article 100622
Hauptverfasser: Nezhat, Farr R., Zavala Retes, Benjamin, White, Michael P., Donovan, Virginia, Pejovic, Tanja
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Sprache:eng
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Abdominal neoplasm
Adjuvant chemotherapy
Case Report
Gastrointestinal stromal tumor
Tyrosine kinase receptor
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Zusammenfassung:•Highly suspicious pelvic mass may require preoperative biopsy for diagnosis.•Neoadjuvant imatinib lowers EGIST tumor burden in extensive disease preoperatively.•EGIST resection aims at complete surgical resection and negative margins.•This case was managed with complete surgical resection and adjuvant imatinib.•Prognostic factors in EGIST are size, mitosis, location and genetic mutations.
ISSN:2352-5789
2352-5789
DOI:10.1016/j.gore.2020.100622