Imaging characteristics of liver metastasis from gastrointestinal stromal tumor before and after imatinib mesylate treatment

Turk J Gastroenterol. 2008 Jun;19(2):129-32.

Abstract

Our objective was to show the unusual imaging characteristics of cystic liver metastases from a malignant gastrointestinal stromal tumor before and after treatment with imatinib mesylate.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Antineoplastic Agents / therapeutic use*
  • Benzamides
  • Colon / pathology
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors / diagnostic imaging*
  • Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors / drug therapy
  • Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors / pathology*
  • Humans
  • Imatinib Mesylate
  • Intestinal Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Intestinal Neoplasms / drug therapy
  • Intestine, Small / pathology
  • Liver / diagnostic imaging
  • Liver / drug effects
  • Liver / pathology
  • Liver Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Liver Neoplasms / drug therapy*
  • Liver Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Male
  • Neoplasm Invasiveness
  • Piperazines / therapeutic use*
  • Pyrimidines / therapeutic use*
  • Stomach / pathology
  • Stomach Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Stomach Neoplasms / drug therapy
  • Ultrasonography

Substances

  • Antineoplastic Agents
  • Benzamides
  • Piperazines
  • Pyrimidines
  • Imatinib Mesylate