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World J Gastroenterol. May 14, 2015; 21(18): 5630-5634
Published online May 14, 2015. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v21.i18.5630
Published online May 14, 2015. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v21.i18.5630
Diagnosis and surgical treatment of esophageal gastrointestinal stromal tumors
Fang-Biao Zhang, Xiang-Yan Zhang, Shao-Song Tu, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Lishui Center Hospital, Lishui 323000, Zhejiang Province, China
Hong-Can Shi, Yu-Sheng Shu, Wei-Ping Shi, Shi-Chun Lu, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Clinical College, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225001, Jiangsu Province, China
Author contributions: Zhang FB collected and analyzed the data and wrote the manuscript; Shi HC, Shu YS, Shi WP and Lu SC performed the surgery; Shi HC provided supervision and revised the manuscript; Zhang XY and Tu SS provided analytical oversight; all authors have read and approved the final version to be published.
Ethics approval: The study was reviewed and approved by the Clinical College, Yangzhou University Institutional Review Board.
Informed consent: All study participants provided informed written consent prior to study enrollment.
Conflict-of-interest: All authors have no conflicts of interest in this article.
Data sharing: Technical appendix, statistical code, and dataset available from the corresponding author at shihongcan9@163.com.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Hong-Can Shi, MD, PhD, Professor, Chief, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Clinical College, Yangzhou University, 11 Huaihai Road, Yangzhou 225001, Jiangsu Province, China. shihongcan9@163.com
Telephone: +86-514-87978804
Received: November 30, 2014
Peer-review started: December 1, 2014
First decision: December 26, 2014
Revised: January 21, 2015
Accepted: February 12, 2015
Article in press: May 4, 2015
Published online: May 14, 2015
Peer-review started: December 1, 2014
First decision: December 26, 2014
Revised: January 21, 2015
Accepted: February 12, 2015
Article in press: May 4, 2015
Published online: May 14, 2015
Core Tip
Core tip: Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) commonly occur in the stomach and small intestine but are less frequent in the esophagus. To our knowledge, there are few detailed reports concerning the diagnosis and surgical treatment of esophageal GISTs. The main purpose of the present study was to present our experience with the diagnosis and surgical resection of esophageal GISTs.