Peritonitis Secondary to Spontaneous Perforation of A Primar

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Peritonitis Secondary to Spontaneous Perforation of A Primary Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumour of The Small Intestine

May 24, 2017322 views

Gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GISTs) are mesenchymal neoplasms of the gastrointestinal tract (GI) that can arise anywhere from the oesophagus to the rectum. GISTs accounts for less than 1% of all GI tumours; however they are the most common mesenchymal neoplasms of the GI tract. Although acute abdomen due to GIST perforation into the peritoneal cavity is rare, a few cases of peritonitis caused by perforation of small-intestinal GISTs have been reported in the literature. Together with a review of the published cases, here we report a case of an elderly patient with acute abdomen due to spontaneous perforation of a GIST located in the jejunum......

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