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The Old Endoscopy Quiz (and Answer) of the Month
December 2007

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Question:

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Correct answer:

A semimalignant ulcerated gastric GIST (Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumour)

A gastric Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumour (GIST) A GIST-tumour in the distal small bowel

Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumour (GIST), a sarcoma (a tumour arising from the connective tissue) of the gastrointestinal tract. GIST is rare, only about 1-3% of all malignant tumours in the gastrointestinal canal are of this kind. About two thirds of these tumours occur in the stomach, one fifth in the small intestine and one tenth in the oesophagus. GISTs are often benign, but larger tumours can cause liver and peritoneal metastases. Bleeding causing anaemia is the main symptom. Nausea, vomiting and weight loss are other common symptoms. Diagnose is most often made by endoscopy and biopsies taken during this examination. Surgical therapy is curative if the disease is not disseminated. These tumours have recently been found to respond very favourably to treatment with Imatinib (Glivec). Tumours formerly called leiomyomas and leiomyosarcomas are considered to be GISTs.

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Virendra Parikh,MD, Fort Wayne, USA,, Indiana
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HAKAN YAPICI, Esenyurt-İSTANBUL, TÜRKİYE
Ho Dang Quy Dung, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
yusuf yücel, karabük, Turkiye
Zahreddine Radwan, Beirut, Lebanon
Dr. MAHDI ALJAROUDI, KHOBAR, KSA/ EASTERN PROVINCE
ALTIN CEKODHIMA, TIRANA, ALBANIA
mohsen ahmed, cairo, Egypt
Jordanov, Sofia, Bulgaria
Cheryl Lynch, Erie, USA/PA
Jiøí Tùma, Sternberk, Czech Republic
makbule dündar, izmir, Turkey
saimir xhemali, elbasan, Albania
Magdalena D. Flores, Sparks, NV
Albert J. Chang, Redlands, CA, USA
ABİT DEMİRCİ, Esenyurt-İSTANBUL, TÜRKİYE
AYYAKANNU KUMAR, Brentwood, Essex, UNITED KINGDOM

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Claudia Iacobescu, Bucharest, Romania
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Kamil Ozdil, İstanbul, Turkey
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harish, Philadelphia, pa, USA
Yankov, Sofia, Bulgaria
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