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  • Inventi:hgst/29146/19
    A Rare Case of Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor with a Liver Metastasis Infiltrating the Inferior Vena Cava and Extending to the Right Atrium with an Early Recurrence After Surgical Extraction
    Research 2019 : July - September
    Dimitrios Siamkouris, Marc Schloesser, Amr Yousef, Elmar Offers

    Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are mesenchymal tumors of the gastrointestinal tract. The major cause of GIST is the\npresence of an abnormal form of tyrosine protein kinase (KIT) protein also known as CD117, which causes uncontrollable\ngrowth of the gastrointestinal cells. Most studies report incidences between 10 and 15 cases of GISTs per million. Metastases to\nthe liver and peritoneum are the most frequent. We report a case of advanced GIST with a liver metastasis infiltrating the\ninferior vena cava (IVC) and extending to the right atrium in the form of a large, floating, isolated intracardiac liver metastasis\nwith diastolic prolapsing through the tricuspid valve. This is a very rare manifestation. One week after heart surgery and\nremoval of a 5* 6cm tumor mass from the right atrium and the IVC, echocardiography depicted an early recurrence.

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    Attribution/ CC Compliant Citation: Siamkouris, Dimitrios, Marc Schloesser, and Amr Yousef. \"A Rare Case of Gastrointestinal Stromal\nTumor with a Liver Metastasis Infiltrating the Inferior Vena Cava and Extending to the Right Atrium with an Early Recurrence after\nSurgical Extraction.\" Case reports in cardiology 2019 (2019).\nhttps://doi.org/10.1155/2019/2623403\nhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/\n\nSome formatting elements, header, footer, logos, dates and pagination were modified while adapting this article.
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