Diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal stromal tumor extending to prostate: A case report and literature review

Medicine (Baltimore). 2016 Nov;95(46):e5439. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000005439.

Abstract

Rationale: Gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) is the neoplasm of gastrointestinal tract.

Patient concerns: The patient complained about the retention of urinary.

Diagnoses: GIST.

Interventions: radical prostatectomy and the imatinib therapy.

Outcomes: No recurrence and metastasis have been found during a 14-month follow-up.

Lessons: comprehensive treatment is necessary for the GIST treatment. Furthermore, we summarize a review of the literature of GIST occurring in the prostate gland treated by different methods and 4 kinds of rare diseases in prostate.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Antineoplastic Agents / administration & dosage
  • Colonoscopy / methods
  • Dysuria / physiopathology
  • Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors* / drug therapy
  • Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors* / pathology
  • Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors* / physiopathology
  • Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors* / surgery
  • Humans
  • Imatinib Mesylate / administration & dosage*
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging / methods
  • Male
  • Neoadjuvant Therapy / methods
  • Neoplasm Invasiveness
  • Preoperative Period
  • Prostate* / diagnostic imaging
  • Prostate* / pathology
  • Prostatectomy / methods*
  • Rectal Neoplasms* / drug therapy
  • Rectal Neoplasms* / pathology
  • Rectal Neoplasms* / physiopathology
  • Rectal Neoplasms* / surgery
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Ultrasonography / methods
  • Urinary Bladder* / diagnostic imaging
  • Urinary Bladder* / pathology

Substances

  • Antineoplastic Agents
  • Imatinib Mesylate