“…Malignant esophageal GCT are usually larger (>40 mm), grow rapidly, tend to frequently recur after resection, and have subtle histological features. Fanburg-Smith used 6 histologic criteria to classify GCTs, including nuclear pleomorphism, high nuclear/cytoplasm ratio, increased mitotic rate (>2/10 high power fields), vesicular nuclei, large nucleoli, and tumor cell necrosis and spindling101112). Neoplasms were classified as histologically malignant, atypical, or benign according to number of fulfilled criteria.…”