[Gastrointestinal stromal tumor--GIST--case report]

Authors describe a newly introduced oncological entity that represents different views on some already well known mesenchymal and neuroectodermal tumours of gastrointestinal tract. These submucosal GIT tumours, showing only few differences in both the clinical and histological pictures, are generally called gastrointestinal stromal tumours. This paper presents a case of 37 year old patient with this disease.