Spindle cell tumor of urinary bladder serosa with phenotypic and genotypic features of gastrointestinal stromal tumor: A clinical report with documentation of KIT expression and mutation

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 894-897

  Lasota, Jerzy ^a   Carlson, John A ^b   Miettinen, Markku ^a  

^a ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BLADDER CARCINOMA; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PROTO ONCOGENE; SPINDLE CELL CARCINOMA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIGENS, CD34; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0034131225     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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