Gastric schwannoma:a report of 9 cases / 中国普通外科杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To analyse the clinical characteristics,diagnosis and treatment of gastric schwannoma. Methods The clinical data of 9 patients with gastric schwannoma were retrospectively analysed. Results The main manifestation in this series was as followsabdominal pain(9 cases), abdominal mass(5 cases) and upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage(3cases).All the patients underwent surgery.None was diagnosed before the operation, 1 patient with malignant gastric Schwannoma died 8 months after the operation.The effect of operation for benign gastric schwannoma was nice.Conclusions Gastric schwannoma has no specific clinical characteristics preoperatively,and the misdiagnosis rate is high.Once the diagnosis of gastric Schwannoma is made,an operation should be performed as early as possible.