[Complete Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy with Imatinib of a Large Gastric GIST-A Case Report]

A 54-year-old woman was presented with the intraabdominal mass to our hospital. Abdominal CT showed 22 cm tumor of the stomach with invasion to the pancreas and the spleen. Upper GI endoscopy showed submucosal tumor at the stomach body, and endoscopic US showed low echoic tumor. The tumor was diagnosed as gastric GIST by biopsy with c-kit positive cells. After 4 months of neoadjuvant therapy with imatinib, she underwent total gastrectomy, distal pancreatectomy and splenectomy. Histopathologically, there were no viable tumor cells in the resected specimen. The patient has no evidence of recurrence at 8 months post operation.