Two hundred gastrointestinal stromal tumors: Recurrence patterns and prognostic factors for survival

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 231, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 51-58

  DeMatteo, Ronald P ^a   Lewis, Jonathan J ^a   Leung, Denis ^a   Mudan, Satvinder S ^a   Woodruff, James M ^a   Brennan, Murray F ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STROMA; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ACTUARIAL ANALYSIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOMA; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0033984319     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-200001000-00008     Document Type: Article

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