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. 2016 Aug;5(4):388–389. doi: 10.21037/hbsn.2016.05.04

Gastrointestinal stromal tumor as cause of hepatic mass

Hector Losada 1,2,, Miguel Villaseca 3, Carolina Vivallo 3, Maite López 1
PMCID: PMC4960423  PMID: 27500151

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A 61-year-old patient, with sudden abdominal pain, associated palpable epigastric mass, a lesion 15-cm in diameter indented the left hepatic lobe, was examined with several imaging. A CT coronal image, describes a 142.7-mm lesión with no cleavage plane with the liver or de stomach (Panel A), CT coronal portal venous phase shows necrotic lesion with broad contact with left hepatic lobe, which appears exophytic. Shifts the stomach, with no cleavage plane with this structure (Panel B).

With the clinical suspicion of a hepatic gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST), we realize a segmental hepatectomy and cholecystectomy, that shows a segment adhered to ovoid partially encapsulated mass (Panel C), the results of immunohistochemical staining for CD117 (D1: 100×), CD34 (D2: 400×), smooth muscle specific actin (D3: 400×) and S-100 (D4: 400×) (Panels D1-D4) determined a GIST.

Acknowledgements

The authors would thank Hepato-Pancreatic and Biliary team of Temuco Regional Hospital.

Informed Consent: Written informed consent was obtained from the patient for publication of this manuscript and any accompanying images.

Footnotes

Conflicts of Interest: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.


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