TWO CASES OF GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR (GIST)IN THE SMALL INTESTINE DIAGNOSED BEFORE OPERATION—REPORT OF TWO CASES—

Abstract

Cases were 32 and 41-year-old male who visited our department to be examined for anemiaat a health checkup. Both patients unaccounted anemia for even by upper and lower intestinalexaminations. Srnall intestinal fiberscope examination a tumor was fourld in the small intestine. Histopathologically, its diagnosis was gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST). These twocases led us to conclude that when a patient suffers from anemia whose cause cannot bedetermined, radiografhy and endoscopy of the small intestine should be carried out in view ofthe possibility of srnall intestine tumors.