Open AccessPancreatic Extra-Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumour with Documentation of C-Kit Mutation: A Case Report
Author(s) -
Preeti Joseph,
Rajiva Goyal,
Preeti Bansal,
Rajni Parmar,
Sarjana Dutt
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of clinical and diagnostic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-782X
pISSN - 0973-709X
DOI - 10.7860/jcdr/2015/13018.5821
Subject(s) - gist , gastrointestinal tract , stromal cell , pancreas , stromal tumor , pathology , alimentary tract , mesenchymal stem cell , medicine , documentation , cancer research , computer science , programming language
Gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GIST) are the most common mesenchymal neoplasms located in the alimentary tract. Stromal tumours that arise outside the gastrointestinal tract as primary tumour are designated as extra-gastrointestinal stromal tumours (EGIST). The EGIST are located in mesentry, omentum, retroperitoneum and rarely in pancreas. Only 19 cases of pancreatic EGIST (pEGIST) have been reported in the literature. Of these, there were only two cases of pEGIST with documentation of molecular alteration in C-Kit gene. We here report a third case of primary pEGIST with documentation of C-kit mutation.