Table 1.
Characteristics of uncommon gastric tumors and tumor-like lesions
| CT features | |
| Benign tumors | |
| Glomus Tumor | Small, solitary, and hypervascular tumor at gastric antrum |
| Schwannoma | Homogeneous attenuated gastric tumor |
| Leiomyoma | Small, endoluminal growth, hypoenhanced tumor at gastric cardia |
| Lipoma | Fat contained tumor |
| Malignant tumors | |
| Adenocarcinoma | Polypoid, or generalized mural thickening, or focal mural thickening with/without ulceration tumor |
| The mucinous type has punctate or miliary calcification within the tumor | |
| GIST | Exophytic hypervascular GI mass arising from submucosa with central ulceration, amorphous calcification |
| Lymphoma | Regional or diffuse wall thickening preserved perigastric fat plane and lymphadenopathy extending below the renal hila |
| Carcinoid | Type I and II, small, polypoid lesion, with marked enhancement. Type III, larger, sporadic, solitary tumor with distant metastasis |
| Tumor-like lesion | |
| Ectopic pancreas | Small solitary lesion at greater curvature of distal antrum with enhancement similar to pancreas |
| Bezoar | Intraluminal gastric filling defect with mottled appearance |
GIST: Gastrointestinal stromal tumor; CT: Computed tomography.