Primitive mesenteric gastrointestinal stromal tumor with autonomic nerve/ganglionic differentiation presenting as a huge mass with small synchronous nodules

Basile, Antonio
Kettenback, Joachim
Mundo, Elena
Natoli, Angelo
Caloggero, Simona
Minciullo, Marina
Garito, Antonella

¹Department of Radiology, Ospedale Ferrarotto, Catania, Italy
²Department of Radiology, Ospedale Barone I. Romeo, Patti, Messina, Italy
³Department of Angiography and Interventional Radiology, University Clinic, Vienna, Austria
⁴Via Papa Giovanni XXIII, 166, 98051, Barcellona P.G., Messina, Italy

Received: 19 April 2004/Accepted: 13 January 2005/Published online: 22 February 2005

An erratum to this article can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00330-005-2845-3

European Radiology 16(2):p 422-427, February 2006. | DOI: 10.1007/s00330-005-2680-6

Abstract

We present a case of a primary mesenteric ectopic gastrointestinal stromal tumor. The pathologic characteristics of this neoplasm, autonomic nerve/ganglionic differentiation and presentation as a huge mass with small synchronous nodules, have not been previously described in the literature.