Gastrointestinal pacemaker cell tumor (GIPACT): Gastrointestinal stromal tumors show phenotypic characteristics of the interstitial cells of Cajal

American Journal of Pathology

Volumn 152, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1259-1269

  Kindblom, Lars Gunnar ^a   Remotti, Helen E ^a   Aldenborg, Frank ^a   Meis Kindblom, Jeanne M ^a  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD34 ANTIGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PACEMAKER; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTO ONCOGENE; STROMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, CD34; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANELLES; PHENOTYPE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; STEM CELLS; STROMAL CELLS;

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