SYNCHRONOUS DEVELOPMENT OF SCHWANNOMA AND PRIMARY ADENOCARCINOMA IN THE STOMACH: A CASE REPORT
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Valdas Gasilionis; Algirdas Šlepavičius; Alvydas Česas
- Source
- Visuomenės sveikata. 28:75-78
- Subject
- Pathology
medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry
Stomach
digestive, oral, and skin physiology
Schwannoma
medicine.disease
nervous system diseases
Primary adenocarcinoma
03 medical and health sciences
Psychiatry and Mental health
0302 clinical medicine
medicine.anatomical_structure
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
otorhinolaryngologic diseases
Medicine
030211 gastroenterology & hepatology
business
- Language
- ISSN
- 2335-867X
Schwannomas are generally benign, slow growing tumors, which can originate from any nerve that has a Schwann cells health. Stomach schwannomas are very rare gastrointestinal mesenchymal tumor which represents only 0,2% of all gastric tumors. The simultaneous occurrence of adenocarcinoma and schwannoma is extremely rare in the stomach. Only two such cases has been previously reported. We present the case of 52-years-old female with asymptomatic schwannoma and simultaneous carcinoma of the stomach.