ArticleCase reports in surgery2012
Gastric schwannoma: a rare but important differential diagnosis of a gastric submucosal mass.
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- What About Gastric Schwannoma? A Review Article.Journal of gastrointestinal cancer · 2021Pooled it
- Clinical Characteristics and Surgical Management of Gastrointestinal Schwannomas.BioMed research international · 2020Trial
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- Gastric Schwannoma: A Rare Cause of Gastric Bleeding.Journal of medical cases · 2024Article
- A rare case of gastric schwannoma mimicking GIST: diagnostic and therapeutic approach.Journal of surgical case reports · 2024Article
- Incidental Finding of an Asymptomatic Jejunal Schwannoma: A Rare Case Report and Review of Literature.The American journal of case reports · 2024Review
- Challenge of treating skeletal muscle metastasis during the COVID-19 pandemic in a low-resource setting.Ecancermedicalscience · 2021Article
- Case reports on a gastric mass presenting with regional lymphadenopathy: A differential diagnosis is gastric schwannoma.International journal of surgery case reports · 2020Article
- Clinical characteristics and surgical treatment of schwannomas of the esophagus and stomach: A case series and systematic review.World journal of gastrointestinal oncology · 2019Article
- Incidental Finding of Gastric Schwannoma in a Renal Failure Patient - Managed by a Minimally Invasive Procedure: Report of a Rare Case.The American journal of case reports · 2019Article
- Gastrointestinal schwannomas: a rare but important differential diagnosis of mesenchymal tumors of gastrointestinal tract.BMC surgery · 2018Article
- Gastric schwannoma-a rare benign mimic of gastrointestinal stromal tumor.Oxford medical case reports · 2018Article
- Peritumoral lymphoid cuff correlates well with lymph node enlargement in gastrointestinal schwannomas.Oncotarget · 2018Article
- Gastric schwannoma: report of two cases and review of the literature.International journal of surgery case reports · 2018Article
- Gastric Schwannoma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature for Gastric Submucosal Masses Distinction.Case reports in medicine · 2018Article
- Gastric Schwannoma: A Tumor Must Be Included in Differential Diagnoses of Gastric Submucosal Tumors.Case reports in gastrointestinal medicine · 2017Article
- A case of infected schwannoma mimicking malignant tumor.World journal of surgical oncology · 2016Article
- Schwannoma of the colon: A case report and review of the literature.Oncology letters · 2016Article
- Schwannoma of the stomach: a case report.Journal of medical case reports · 2016Article
- Gastric Schwannoma: Case report from Tanzania and brief review of literature.Clinical case reports · 2015Article
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Abstract
Schwannomas are generally slow growing asymptomatic neoplasms that rarely occur in the GI tract. However, if found, the most common site is the stomach. Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are the most common mesenchymal tumors of the gastrointestinal tract, and 60-70% of them occur in the stomach. Owing to their typical presentation as submucosal neoplasms, gastric schwannomas and GISTs appear grossly similar. Accordingly, the differential diagnosis for a gastric submucosal mass should include gastric schwannomas. Furthermore, GI schwannomas are benign neoplasms with excellent prognosis after surgical resection, whereas 10-30% of GISTs have malignant behavior. Hence, it is important to distinguish gastric schwannomas from GISTs to make an accurate diagnosis to optimally guide treatment options. Nevertheless, owing to the paucity of gastric schwannomas, the index of suspicion for this diagnosis is low. We report a rare case of gastric schwannoma in 53-year-old woman who underwent laparoscopic partial gastrectomy under the suspicion of a GIST preoperatively but confirmed to have a gastric schwannoma postoperatively. This case underscores the importance of including gastric schwannomas in the differential diagnosis when preoperative imaging studies reveal a submucosal, exophytic gastric mass. For a gastric schwannoma, complete margin negative surgical resection is the curative treatment of choice.
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