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Gastric Stromal Tumors: Clinical Presentations, Diagnosis And Outcome, Dildar Hussain, Hasnain Zafar, Asad Jamil Raja
Gastric Stromal Tumors: Clinical Presentations, Diagnosis And Outcome, Dildar Hussain, Hasnain Zafar, Asad Jamil Raja
Section of General Surgery
Objective: To determine the clinical presentations, of gastric stromal tumors with diagnostic methods, pathology and outcome after surgery.
Study Design: A case series.
Duration and Setting: From January 1988 to December 2002 at The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi.
Patients and Methods: All patients of age 14 years and above, diagnosed histopathologically to have gastric stromal tumors were included. The data of these patients was collected retrospectively from January 1988 to December 1998, and prospectively from January 1999 to December 2002. All the patients were studied as a single group.
Results: There were 11 patients. Their mean age was …