Gastrointestinal stromal tumor and gastric adenocarcinoma collision tumors

Hum Pathol. 2010 Jul;41(7):1034-1039, Britta Kleist, Jerzy Lasota, Markku Miettinen

Gastrointestinal stromal tumors sometimes occur together with gastric carcinoma, but true collision tumors featuring these 2 components are very rare. The authors describe here 2 collision tumors containing a gastrointestinal stromal tumor with intermingling elements of gastric adenocarcinoma. The gastrointestinal stromal tumors were 5.5 to 6 cm spindle cell tumors, and one patient had an additional prepyloric stromal tumor (2.5 cm). All gastrointestinal stromal tumors had low mitotic counts less...

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