A Rare Case of Life-Threatening Bleeding Caused by a Jejunal GIST

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Aloka Liyanage R Kalaiselvan R Rajaganeshan S P B Thalgaspitiya

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Aloka Liyanage
Department of General Surgery, Whiston Hospital, Warrington Road, Rainhill, Prescot L35 5DR

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Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumours (GISTs) are rare mesenchymal tumours that are specific to GI tract. GISTs usually associated with advanced age and have a slight male preponderance. GISTs are commonly found in stomach. Jujunal GISTs are the rarest and account for about 0.1-3% of all GI tumours [1]. The most common clinical manifestation of symptomatic GISTs includes intermittent bleeding due to mucosal ulceration. Massive, life threatening gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding is a rare occurrence. We report a rare case of bleeding Jejunal GIST in a 32-year-old female who presented with haemorrhagic shock that required resuscitative laparotomy. Histopathology and immunohistochemistry confirmed the tumour to have features of GIST with clear margins and post-operative cross-sectional imaging excluded any metastatic deposits.

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Case Report

Publication history

Received: Mon 04, Nov 2019
Accepted: Mon 02, Dec 2019
Published: Mon 23, Dec 2019

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© 2023 Aloka Liyanage. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.SCR.2019.06.04