Gastric GIST with progressive mitotic index

Fistulizing Gastric GIST

A 78-year-old male presented to the emergency departent (ER) with hematemesis. Two weeks earlier, he erformed a gastroscopy for dyspepsia that showed an rregular convex deformity in greater curvature of the gasric body covered by congestive and ulcerated mucosa. iopsies were diagnostic of a gastric gastrointestinal stromal umor (GIST): fusocellular neoplasm with increased cellularty and marked ...

Long term survival results for gastric GIST: is laparoscopic surgery for large gastric GIST feasible?

BACKGROUND Recently, laparoscopic resection for relatively small sized gastric gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) has been widely accepted as minimally invasive surgery. However, no report on the long-term safety and efficacy of this surgery for large sized gastric GISTs has been published to date. METHODS Between July 1998 and January 2011, 104 consecutive patients who underwent resecti...

Tomographic findings of gastric gastrointestinal stromal tumor and correlation with the mitotic index.

CONTEXT Gastrointestinal stromal tumors are uncommon abdominal neoplasms and can affect any portion of the gastrointestinal tract. OBJECTIVES Describe the tomographic findings of the gastrointestinal stromal tumor of gastric origin, correlating it with the mitotic index. METHODS Twenty-one patients were selected within the period of January 2000 and 2008, with histopathological and immunohi...

Laparoscopic Wedge Resection of Gastric Stromal Tumor (GIST)

INTRODUCTION Laparoscopic treatment in general, in recent age has proven that it is well associated with low morbidity, mortality, fast recovery, less pain and sound oncologic outcomes. Recent reports from the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) GIST Task Force and the GIST Consensus Conference under the auspices of The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) show that laparoscopi...

The Mitotic Index and Interphase Processes