An immunohistochemical and clinicopathological study of gastrointestinal stromal tumors

Pathology International

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 786-798

  Tazawa, Kenichi ^a,b   Tsukada, Kazuhiro ^b   Makuuchi, Hiroyasu ^a   Tsutsumi, Yutaka ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

c kit protein; Caldesmon; CD34; Gastrointestinal stromal tumor; Interstitial cell of Cajal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPEROXIDASE STAINING; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ANTIGENS, CD34; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CALMODULIN-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; STROMAL CELLS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0032744044     PISSN: 13205463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1827.1999.00947.x     Document Type: Article

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