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Anorectal Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor: About a Rare Case Report and Review of Literature

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DOI: 10.23958/ijirms/vol07-i10/1529· Pages: 559 - 562· Vol. 7, No. 10, (2022)· Published: October 28, 2022
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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.

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Gastrointestinal stromal tumorsconstipationrectal syndromeImmunohistochemistryImatinib
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Aouroud Hala
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Mohamed VI Hospital, Marrakesh, Morocco
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Jihane Rizkou
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Mohamed VI Hospital, Marrakesh, Morocco
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Khadija Krati
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Mohamed VI Hospital, Marrakesh, Morocco
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