Abstract

Gastrointestinal stromal tumor’s are the most common mesenchymal tumor of the gastrointestinal tract in adults; stromal tumors in the rectum are extremely rare. We report the case of a 64 years old woman admitted for admitted for etiological assessment of low-grade rectal bleeding and terminal appearance constipation, whose paraclinical investigations showed the presence of a GIST without secondary lesions with a high risk of recurrence and whose therapeutic decision was to start imatinib as a neoadjuvant treatment and then schedule her for a subsequent resection.

Keywords: Gastrointestinal stromal tumors, constipation, rectal syndrome, Immunohistochemistry, Imatinib, Morocco

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Hala, A., Rizkou, J., & Krati, K. (2022). Anorectal Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor: About a Rare Case Report and Review of Literature. International Journal of Innovative Research in Medical Science, 7(10), 559–562. https://doi.org/10.23958/ijirms/vol07-i10/1529

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