[A large symptomatic gastric leiomyoma. A case report and considerations of the treatment possibilities].

The authors describe the case of a female patient affected with large symptomatic gastric leiomyoma, six centimeters in diameter, who presented to clinical observation referring gastric pain and melena. The first gastroscopy showed massive bleeding from a submucosal gastric lesion. The lesion was not endoscopically resectable and the injective endoscopic treatment of bleeding failed. The patient was surgically treated with laparotomic excision of the leiomyoma. She was back home in ten days. The authors describe this case to discuss the possibility to resect large gastric leiomyomas using endoscopic resection indeed surgical approach. They also enhance the validity of surgical treatment for its safety and radical approach to large lesions.