Malignant gastrointestinal stromal tumor of the small intestine: Rare complication of acute disseminated intravascular coagulation without hematogenous metastasis

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 2271-2277

  Nishimura, Masako ^a   Komori, Akihiko ^b   Matsushita, Mikiko ^b   Fukutani, Akinao ^b   Fujiyama, Yoshihide ^b   Bamba, Tadao ^b  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Acute disseminated intravascular coagulation; Gastrointestinal stromal tumor; Leiomyosarcoma; Small intestine

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; JAPAN; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL INTESTINE TUMOR;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILEAL NEOPLASMS; JEJUNAL NEOPLASMS; LEIOMYOSARCOMA;

EID: 0031766367     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026674824211     Document Type: Article

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