Small bowel schwannoma: an important differential for gastrointestinal stromal tumours.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Gricks, Benjamin; Worley, Philip; England, Georgina
- Source
- ANZ Journal of Surgery. Dec2021, Vol. 91 Issue 12, pE772-E773. 2p.
- Subject
- *SCHWANNOMAS
*GASTROINTESTINAL stromal tumors
*SMALL intestine
*GLIAL fibrillary acidic protein
- Language
- ISSN
- 1445-1433
The endoscopic appearance for gastric lesions is the same for all sub-mucosal lesions, and endoscopic biopsies are often unable to reach the lesion for reliable diagnosis (unless assisted by endoscopic ultrasound).6 As exemplified in our case, surgical resection and immunohistochemistry are usually the sole methods of reliably differentiating between GIST and Schwannoma, and for this reason surgical resection remains the gold standard treatment for gastrointestinal Schwannomas. Computed tomography (CT) abdomen revealed a 36-mm heterogeneous lesion in the left peritoneal cavity (Fig. GLO:HWR/01dec21:ans16907-fig-0001.jpg PHOTO (COLOR): 1 Computed tomography appearance of the lesion. gl The decision was made to proceed to surgical resection. [Extracted from the article]