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Robotic Duodenal Sleeve Resection for Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor with Rare Exon 8 KIT Mutation Following Neoadjuvant Imatinib
Published on: April 3, 2026
[Unusual tumor of the stomach]
1Laboratoire d'aAatomie et de Cytologie Pathologiques, CHU Habib-Bourguiba, Route El-Ain Km 0.5, C.P 3029 Sfax, Tunisie.
Abstract:
Stomach melanomas are exceptional and often secondary to cutaneous tumors. Their symptomatology is not specific. We report the case of a 66-year-old woman, hospitalized with a three month history of epigastric pain and weight loss. Gastroscopy had revealed a polyp of the gastric mucosa. Histopathologic examination confirmed the diagnosis of a gastric infiltration by a melanoma. At exploration, there were lung, liver and bone metastasis and no cutaneous melanoma. The diagnosis of polymetastasis from a melanoma without primitive was kept. The patient died three months later.
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