A Rare Case of Multiple Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors Coexisting with a Rectal Adenocarcinoma in a Patient with Attenuated Familial Adenomatous Polyposis Syndrome and a Mini Review of the Literature.
Daniel ParamythiotisFilippos KyriakidisEleni KarlaftiTriantafyllia KoletsaAnastasia TsakonaPetros PapalexisAristeidis IoannidisPetra MalliouSmaro NettaAntonios MichalopoulosPublished in: Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) (2022)
Multiple GISTs may present as an asymptomatic disease, and the same thing is true for colorectal cancer. Therefore, the appropriate screening is crucial for entities such as AFAP, since the surgery was performed because of the malignant transformation in one of the polyps and revealed multiple GISTs, as well.