Bernadette Capili, Joyce K Anastasi
An Introduction to Implementing and Conducting the Study
The American journal of nursing
gastrointestinal stromal tumors gists common mesenchymal tumors gastrointestinal tract gists originate interstitial cells cajal commonly found stomach available reports gists subsahara africa case reports case series report local experience challenges management gists 33 patients lagos nigeria descriptive study adult patients 16 years managed gists lagos university teaching hospital lagos private hospital facilities january 2015 march 2021 information patients demographic characteristics clinicopathological features surgery performed postoperative complications retrieved hospitals medical records analysis data analysis carried using ibm spss statistics windows version 230 armonk ny usa ibm corp thirtythree patients comprising 19 males 14 females male female ratio 141 included study mean age presentation 525 years abdominal pain 697 anemic symptoms 454 principal modes presentation abdominal computed tomography ct scan revealed stomach primary source gists 758 patients fortyfive percent patients ct features local organ invasion 272 features metastasis surgical resection feasible 28 848 patients postoperative mortality recorded two patients recurrent gists histological cell types spindle cell 576 mixed spindle epithelioid 242 epithelioid 182 joensuu highrisk tumors 64 3 prevalent series advancedstage disease features anemia hallmarks gists among patients series surgical resection gist may possible cases advanced disease spindle cell types highrisk gists common pathological varieties patients