HIGHLIGHTS
- who: Shohei Ohki from the (UNIVERSITY) have published the Article: Hemothorax due to a ruptured esophageal gastrointestinal stromal tumor: case report, in the Journal: (JOURNAL)
- what: We describe urgent surgical management of a ruptured giant esophageal GIST by emergency thoracotomy and subsequent "piecemeal" resection without esophagectomy.
SUMMARY
Extraordinarily rare phenomenon. Surgical management, either by esophagectomy or enucleation, is indicated in esophageal GIST and obtaining a margin-negative resection is the goal. Imatinib mesylate, a tyrosine kinase inhibitor, is a recent adjuvant chemotherapy agent that can significantly prolong disease-free survival in . . .
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