PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Georgios C Sotiropoulos
AU  - Paraskevas Stamopoulos
AU  - Stylianos Kykalos
AU  - Nikolaos Machairas
TI  - Conventional transanal excision for a very low gastrointestinal stromal tumour
AID  - 10.1136/bcr-2016-217424
DP  - 2017 Apr 21
TA  - BMJ Case Reports
PG  - bcr-2016-217424
VI  - 2017
4099  - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2017/bcr-2016-217424.short
4100  - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2017/bcr-2016-217424.full
AB  - Gastrointestinal stromal tumour (GIST) represents a rare tumour entity, which has been more intensively investigated during the last decade. The rectum as the primary site of GIST is even uncommon. The space constraints in the pelvis renders optimal oncological surgery demanding and proximity of these lesions to the anal sphincter enhances the potential morbidity of any radical surgery. We herein report on a young patient with a >5 cm rectal GIST localised at 1 cm from the anorectal junction.