(Drs. Vuilleumier and Halkic reply)
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* Henri Vuilleumier
* Nermin Halkic

We agree with our colleagues that laparoscopic resection may indeed be the treatment of choice for patients with GIST. The case we presented was focused more on GIST itself than on the operative technique. The resection performed in our report was one of the last cases treated by laparotomy. So we would like to reassure our colleagues that whenever possible we now use minimally invasive techniques for resection of gastric GIST either by wedge resection or laparoendogastric techniques.