Gastrointestinal stromal tumors with prominent signet-ring cell features

Modern Pathology

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 609-613

  Suster, Saul ^a,c   Fletcher, Christopher D M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

CD34; Gastrointestinal stromal tumors; Immunohistochemistry; Signet ring cells

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNET RING CARCINOMA; STROMA CELL;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARCINOMA, SIGNET RING CELL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MIDDLE AGED; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; STROMAL CELLS;

EID: 0029970986     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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