Mesenchymal tumors of muscularis mucosae of colon and rectum are benign leiomyomas that should be separated from gastrointestinal stromal tumors - A clinicopathologic and immunohistochemical study of eighty-eight cases

Modern Pathology

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 950-956

  Miettinen, Markku ^a   Sarlomo Rikala, Maarit ^b   Sobin, Leslie H ^a  

^a ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

GIST; Immunohistochemistry; Leiomyoma; Pathology

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CD34 ANTIGEN; DESMIN; PROTEIN S 100; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLON MUCOSA; COLON TUMOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEIOMYOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAST CELL; MESENCHYMOMA; MITOSIS RATE; MORBIDITY; POLYPECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM MUCOSA; RECTUM TUMOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGMOID; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION;

ACTINS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, CD34; COLON; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DESMIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; LEIOMYOMA; MALE; MESODERM; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; RECTUM; S100 PROTEINS;

EID: 0034779713     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.3880417     Document Type: Article

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