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Fig. 4

From: Surgery for multiple gastric gastrointestinal stromal tumors and large esophageal diverticulum related to germline mutation of the KIT gene: a case report

Fig. 4

Operative findings: we dissected the thoracic esophagus immediately above the diverticulum to avoid damaging the diverticulum (black arrow) (a). After cutting the esophagus, we dissected around the esophagus hiatus (b). By the HALS, we performed proximal gastrectomy. We confirmed multiple extramural growth GISTs in the lesser curvature of gastric wall (c), and in the greater curvature of gastric wall (d). We palpated the largest GIST which grew luminally in the fornix (black arrow heads) (e). The presence of more than ten small GISTs (<1 cm) was identified in the remaining stomach (f)

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