Pedunculated gastrointestinal stromal tumor presenting as bowel volvulus: Usefulness of color Doppler ultrasonography for strangulated ileus

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 291-294

  Nakai, Takehiro ^a   Shimomura, Tomoo ^a   Nakai, Hiroaki ^a   Suzuki, Yoshio ^a   Nakamura, Masami ^b   Kawasaki, Tadashi ^b  

^a National Sengokusou Hospital   (Japan)

^b Kawasaki Naika Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bowel volvulus; Color Doppler ultrasonography; Gastrointestinal stromal tumor; Pedicle torsion; Tornado sign

Indexed keywords

CD34 ANTIGEN; DESMIN; PROTEIN S 100; STEM CELL FACTOR; VIMENTIN;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ILEUS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE BLOOD FLOW; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MESENTERY BLOOD VESSEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH VOLVULUS; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; ILEAL DISEASES; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; LAPAROTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROMAL CELLS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TORSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 0037329558     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021971209043     Document Type: Article

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