Diagnosis and Treatment of Esophageal Granular Cell Tumor: A Case Report and Review of the Literature.

Ramin NiknamKamran Bagheri LankaraniBita Geramizadeh

Published in: Case reports in gastrointestinal medicine (2017)

Gastrointestinal granular cell tumors are uncommon. The most common site of gastrointestinal granular cell tumor (GCT) is esophagus. We report a case of esophageal GCT incidentally diagnosed by endoscopy. The lesion was evaluated by endoscopic ultrasonography and resected using the endoscopic technique without complication.

Keyphrases

single cell
cell therapy
magnetic resonance imaging
lymph node
bone marrow
prognostic factors