Gastric Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors with Gastroparesis After Surgery

Gastroparesis refers to a gastric motility disorder syndrome, clinically mainly manifested as gastric emptying disorder, which is caused by non-mechanical obstructive factors secondary to abdominal surgery. Gastroparesis is one of the common complications of abdominal surgery, especially gastroduodenal surgery. Once gastroparesis occurs, it often lasts for several weeks or even longer, and there is not an effective therapy at present. Since the surgical treatment principle of gastric GIST does not require excessive gastrectomy and lymph node dissection, partial gastrectomy or wedge resection is generally adopted, and radical resection can be achieved by obtaining a negative margin. There is a possibility of gastroparesis occurring after surgery for gastric GIST, but the mechanism warrants further investigation.