An unusual presentation of pediatric gastrointestinal stromal tumor arising from stomach

Abstract

Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) are extremely rare in the pediatric population and, as a result, many clinicians may never encounter this diagnosis in children during their practice. Contrary to the usual clinical presentation of pediatric GIST as painless GI bleeding, we report here a case of a young girl with GIST whose main clinical presentation was a large cystic abdominal mass.