TITLE:
Emergency Atypical Resection for Perforated Gastric Gist
AUTHORS:
Manuel Muinelo Lorenzo, Lucia Dorado Castro, Maria Isabel Perez Moreiras, Jose Conde Vales, Jose Antonio Costa Buján
KEYWORDS:
GIST; Gastrectomy; Intra-Abdominal Abscess
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Gastroenterology,
Vol.4 No.3,
March
11,
2014
ABSTRACT: We report the case of a 77-year-old male who came to the emergency department with epigastric pain accompanied by fever and chills. After the diagnosis of intra-abdominal abscess and gastric tumor, emergency surgery was performed with resection of the tumor and abscess drainage. The patient had a good postoperative course.