[Gastric stomal tumor revelated by post traumatic rupture]

ABSTRACT

The rupture of stromal gastric tumour is an exceptional cause of hemoperitoneum. We report a case of ruptured stromal gastric tumor in the peritoneal cavity after a contusion of the left hypochondrial region in a 58 years old male patient operated in emergency for an acute anemia thought to be caused by a pathological rupture of the spleen. The emergency laparotomy revealed an exo-gastric tumor located in a fundus intimately linked with the spleen. Therefore, we realized a partial gastrectomy and the patient was treated by chemotherapy with Glivec [R] [imatinib]. The evolution was favorable for two years without recurrence. The traumatic rupture of a stromal gastric tumour is an exceptional event. The diagnosis is rarely evocated before intervention. It constitutes an predicative sign of malignancy. The circumstances of finding a stromal gastric tumour are not specific. However, their rupture indicates an urgent laparotomy in order to perform a hemostatic gastrectomy