Invited response letter to the letter "Our experience regarding the association between gastrointestinal stromal tumor and bariatric surgery. A response to a letter "Gastrointestinal stromal tumor after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy: be awake before, during, and after a bariatric procedure"

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Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the letter to the editor entitled BOur Experience regarding the association between Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor and Bariatric Surgery. A response to a letter BGastrointestinal Stromal Tumor After Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy: Be Awake Before, During, and After a Bariatric Procedure.^ We read this letter with great interest and we are grateful to the authors for their interest and thoughtful comments regarding our former letter [1]. In their letter, the authors shared their experience regarding the gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) as a bariatric surgery incidental finding [2]. The authors presented 12 cases which were retrospectively analyzed from a group of 50 European laparoscopic surgeons. In their case series, the demographics of the patients and anatomic tumoral localization and pathological characteristics (size, margins, CD117 marker, and mitotic index) were similar with other studies in the literature [1, 3–5].