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Digital spot film from an upper gastrointestinal examination demonstrating the gastric mass located in the proximal stomach. Small arrows outline a smooth mucosal surface. The short white arrows point to the classic "right angle deformity" indicating a submucosal location by radiographic criteria. The long white arrows show the bulging contour deformity on the external surface of the stomach.
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A contrast upper gastrointestinal series displayed a well-circumscribed mass in the region of the upper gastric body (Figure 1).
Laparoscopic demonstration of the gastric leiomyoma.
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The short gastric vessels were divided by using the Harmonic scalpel (UltraCision Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Cincinnati, Ohio) to completely free and visualize the mass (Figure 2).
An endoscopic stapler was used to resect the gastric leiomyoma.
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A wedge resection of the mass with a rim of normal gastric tissue was performed with a laparoscopic stapling device (Figure 3).