Incidental gastric glomus tumor after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy

• Main Authors: Mehmet Tahir Oruç (Author), Tuğrul Çakir (Author), Arif Aslaner (Author), Sema Çekiç (Author), Alkan Sakar (Author), Erdem Can Yardimci (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: University of São Paulo, 2016-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Gastric glomus tumors (GGTs) are unusual benign, subepithelial, mesenchymal neoplasms of modified smooth muscle cells representing a neoplastic counterpart of glomus bodies. A 38-year-old woman was admitted to our clinic presenting morbid obesity. Routine preoperative evaluations, such as laboratory...