Mizuki Tamai, Atsushi Shiozaki, Hitoshi Fujiwara, Hirotaka Konishi, Jun Kiuchi, Takuma Ohashi, Hiroki Shimizu, Tomohiro Arita, Yusuke Yamamoto, Ryo Morimura, Yoshiaki Kuriu, Hisashi Ikoma, Takeshi Kubota, Kazuma Okamoto, Eigo Otsuji
A 71-year-old woman was referred to our hospital because of an esophageal submucosal tumor. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy revealed a submucosal tumor of 40×25 mm with ulceration in the lower thoracic esophagus and endoscopic ultrasonographic fine needle aspiration histology showed KIT(+), CD34(+), DOG-1(+), desmin(-), S-100 protein(-). We diagnosed esophageal GIST and performed mediastinoscope-assisted transhiatal esophagectomy with gastric tube reconstruction. Histopathological findings showed c-kit(+), Ki-67 index of 8%, and middle-risk GIST by the modified- Fletcher classification...
December 2021: Gan to Kagaku Ryoho. Cancer & Chemotherapy