Gastric Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumor – A Rare Mesenchymal Tumor in the Era of C-Kit

1 Professor of Surgical Oncology, 2 Associate Professor of Surgical Oncology 3 Assistant Professor of Surgical Oncology, 4 Resident Surgical Oncology Department of Surgical Oncology, Centre for Oncology, Government Royapettah Hospital & Kilpauk Medical College, Chennai, India, Pincode 600014 Corresponding Author Prof Subbiah Shanmugam MS MCh Address: No.110, Courtyard, Ramnagar, 3 rd Main street, Nanganallur, Chennai, India, Pin code 600061 Email: [email protected] Abstract Malignant tumors of stomach other than carcinomas are less common. The more frequent of these are lymphomas and Gastrointestinal stromal tumors. A malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor (MPNST) of stomach is extremely rare and only five cases have been reported in literature so far. Here we report a case of a Gastric malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor in a patient of neurofibromatosis.