Leiomiossarcoma de estômago / Leiomyosarcoma of the stomach

ABSTRACT

The gastrointestinal tract musculature tumors are uncommon, this is the reason why we considered important to describe an occurence of stomach leiomyosarcoma in a 56 year-old male patient who presented abdominal pain and weight loss. The endoscopic biopsy did not define the tumor hsitologic type, but permitted a malignant neoplasm diagnosis. In the exploratory laparotomy a large ulcerated gastric tumor was noticed. It was infiltrated and with areas of necrosis. A total gastrectomy and transit reconstruction with a Roux-in-Y limb was acomplished. The histopathological study detected a stomach leiomyosarcoma