A Rare Granular Cell Tumor with a Center Ulcer of the Rectum

Table 1

Patient clinical characteristics from the literature.

Case (no)	Age, years	Sex	Signs and symptoms	Morphology	Size, mm	Layer of invasion	Treatment
1^1	61	M	None	Normal mucosa, sessile	4	N/A	Endoscopic resection
2^5	49.9 (mean)	6 M/2 F	None: 1, positive FOBT: 5, abdominal discomfort: 2	Yellowish-white: 7; white: 1, all normal mucosa, sessile: 5, pedunculated: 3	<10: 7; 15: 1	Submucosa: most	Endoscopic resection: 5; surgery: 3
3^6	51	M	None	Yellowish, normal mucosa, sessile	20	Subserosa	Surgery
4^7	59	M	None	Normal mucosa, sessile	8	Submucosa	Endoscopic resection
5^8	49	M	N/A	N/A	8	N/A	Endoscopic resection
6^9	45	M	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Present case	47	M	None	Reddish, ulcerated, pedunculated	10	Submucosa	Endoscopic resection

M, male; F, female; FOBT, fecal occult blood test; N/A, not available.