Erschienen in:
01.08.2012 | Invited Commentary
Duodenal gastrointestinal stroma tumours: difficulties of an individualized risk assessment and controversies in surgical therapy
verfasst von:
D. Vallböhmer, W. T. Knoefel
Erschienen in:
International Journal of Colorectal Disease
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Ausgabe 8/2012
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Excerpt
Gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GISTs) are uncommon but distinct mesenchymal tumours of the gastrointestinal tract [
1‐
4]. They evolve mainly in the stomach (50–60 %), while the small intestine (25 %) and rectum (5 %) are less common sites. Especially the location in the duodenum is very rare with less than 5 % of patients with GIST [
1,
2]. …