Gastric glomus tumor: A brief report
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Gastric glomus tumor: A case report
Gastric glomus tumors are rare mesenchymal tumors of the gastrointestinal tract. We describe a 72-year-old patient who presented with episodes of melena and was subsequently investigated for a tumor of the antrum of the stomach. Surgical resection revealed a 2 x 2 x 1.7 cm well circumscribed submucosal tumor, extending into the muscularis propria. The histopathologic examination of the specimen...
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عنوان ژورنال: Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0377-4929
DOI: 10.4103/0377-4929.138809