PMID: 22574531May 12, 2012Paper

Clinical characteristics, endosonographic findings and etiologies of gastroduodenal subepithelial lesions: a Thai referral single center study

Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand = Chotmaihet Thangphaet
Varayu PrachayakulUdom Kachintorn

Abstract

The present study was undertaken to evaluate the demographic data, endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) characteristics of the sub-epithelial lesions, pathology results, complications and long-term follow-up of the patients whom referred for EUS evaluation at Siriraj Hospital. From January 2008-June 2011, a total of 61 cases was referred for EUS evaluation due to subepithelial lesions. The endoscopic reports, pathology results and the patients' medical records were reviewed. The present study was approved by Siriraj Institutional Review Board. A total of 61 patients were referred for evaluation of subepithelial lesions, 6 of them were excluded. Thus, 55 cases were analyzed. The mean age was 57.7 +/- 13.8 years (27-87 years). Sixty seven percent were female. Only one-third of the patients had symptoms. The provisional diagnosis of the sub-epithelial lesions, regarding only clinical and endosonographic characteristics were GIST neuroendocrine tumor (NET), pancreatic rest, lipoma, granular cell tumor and others (70.9%, 9.1%, 9.1%, 3.6%, 3.6% and 3.6% respectively). All the lesions were diagnosed as GIST originating from either the forth layer (97.4%) or the second layer (2.6%) of gastric or duodenal wall. Fine needle aspiration (FNA) ...Continue Reading

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