creators_name: Rajshekar, S creators_name: Guruprasad, B creators_name: Ganguly, S creators_name: Rathod, P creators_name: Bafna, UD creators_id: guru02doc@yahoo.co.in editors_name: Kakkilaya, Srinivas editors_id: Kakkilaya BS type: journale datestamp: 2014-02-25 12:42:28 lastmod: 2014-02-25 12:42:28 metadata_visibility: show title: Metastatic Leiomyosarcoma of Small Intestine ispublished: pub subjects: OJHAS full_text_status: public keywords: Leiomyosarcoma; Gastro intestinal stromal tumor abstract: This is the report of a case of primary leiomyosarcoma of the small intestine, an uncommon primary malignancy of the small intestine. date: 2013-08-25 date_type: published publication: Online Journal of Health and Allied Sciences volume: 12 number: 2(18) publisher: Kakkilaya BS refereed: TRUE referencetext: 1. Jemal A, Siegel R, Ward E, et al. Cancer statistics, 2009. CA Cancer J Clin 2009;59:225-249. 2. Brophy C, Cahow CE. Primary small bowel malignant tumours. Unrecognized until emergent laparotomy. Am Surg. 1989;55:408-412. 3. Chou FF, Eng HL, Sheen-Chen SM. Smooth muscle tumors of the gastrointestinal tract: analysis of prognostic factors. Surgery. 1996;119:171-177. 4. Akwari OE, Dozois RR, Weiland LH, Beahrs OH. Leiomyosarcoma of the small and large bowel. Cancer. 1978; 42:1375-1384. 5. Evans HL. Smooth muscle tumors of the gastrointestinal tract: a study of 56 cases followed for a minimum of 10 years. Cancer. 1985;56:2242-2250. 6. Ohnishi T, Yoshioka H, Ishida O. MR imaging of gastrointestinal leiomyosarcoma. Radiat Med.1991;9:114-117. 7. Fadi I JABR, Nedaa Skeik. A Leiomyosarcoma of the small bowels causing obscure gastrointestinal bleeding diagnosed by capsule endoscopy. Lebanese Medical Journal2010;58(4):238-240. 8. Miettinen M, Sarlomo-Rikala M, Sobin LH, Lasota J. Gastrointestinal stromal tumors and leiomyosarcomas in the colon : a clinicopathologic, immunohistochemical, and molecular genetic study of 44 cases. Am J Surg Pathol 2000;24:1339-1352. 9. Skandalakis JE, Gray SW, Skandalakis LJ. Metastasis of malignant smooth muscle tumors of the gastrointestinal tract: pattern and process. J Med Assoc Ga1991;80:701-709. 10. Demetri GD, Chawla SP, von Mehren M, et al. Efficacy and safety of trabectedin in patients with advanced or metastatic liposarcoma or leiomyosarcoma after failure of prior anthracyclines and ifosfamide: results of a randomized phase II study of two different schedules. J Clin Oncol. 2009;27:4188-4196. citation: Rajshekar, S and Guruprasad, B and Ganguly, S and Rathod, P and Bafna, UD (2013) Metastatic Leiomyosarcoma of Small Intestine. [Journal (On-line/Unpaginated)] document_url: http://cogprints.org/9166/1/2013-2-18.pdf