Jejunal gist, a rare abdominal disease entity presenting as an acute abdomen. Case report

Introduction: About 0.2–1% of gastrointestinal tumours are gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GIST), which occur most frequently in the stomach, sometimes in the small intestine but they can develop rarely in other parts of the gastrointestinal tract as well. Mutation of KIT gene has a prominent role in its development, gain-of-function mutations most commonly occur in the exons 11, 9 and 13. Not only surgical interventions, but molecular biological methods have been available in its treatment recently. Case report: The 77-year old woman presented with sudden gastrointestinal bleeding (hematemesis, melena) leadin…