Esophageal granular cell tumors:Report of 9 cases and a literature review

作     者：Guo-Qiang Xu Hong-Tan Chen Cheng-Fu Xu Xiao-Dong Teng 

作者机构：Department of Gastroenterologythe First Affiliated HospitalCollege of MedicineZhejiang University Department of Pathologythe First Affiliated HospitalCollege of MedicineZhejiang University 

出 版 物：《World Journal of Gastroenterology》 (世界胃肠病学杂志（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2012年第18卷第47期

页      面：7118-7121页

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学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 100214[医学-肿瘤学] 10[医学] 

主　　题：Esophageal granular cell tumor Endoscopic ultrasonography Computer images analysis 

摘      要：Esophageal granular cell tumors(GCTs) are rare tumors of the *** evaluated the clinical and pathologic features of 9 esophageal GCT patients(5 men and 4 women) from our institute and reviewed the related disease *** age ranged from 25 to 53 years(mean:41 years).All the patients were asymptomatic or presented with non-specific *** GCTs occurred in the distal esophagus and were less than 6 mm in *** analysis showed that the average gray-scale endoscopic ultrasound images of esophageal GCTs were greater than that of esophageal *** patients were treated by endoscopic resection,and 1 patient underwent surgical *** post-therapy recurrence or metastasis developed during follow-up(mean:36.4 mo,range:1-72 mo).