Familial gastrointestinal stromal tumor with hyperpigmentation: Association with a germline mutation of the c-kit gene

Gastroenterology

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 210-215

  Maeyama, Hironobu ^a   Hidaka, Eiko ^b   Ota, Hiroyoshi ^b   Minami, Satoshi ^a,b   Kajiyama, Masashi ^a   Kuraishi, Akira ^a   Mori, Hiromitsu ^a   Matsuda, Yoshiaki ^a   Wada, Shuichi ^a   Sodeyama, Harutsugu ^a   Nakata, Shinji ^a   Kawamura, Nobuyuki ^a   Hata, Satoru ^a   Watanabe, Masahide ^a   Iijima, Yoshihiro ^a   Katsuyama, Tsutomu ^b  

^a NAGANO RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; CD34 ANTIGEN; DNA; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR; VALINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CODON; EXON; FAMILIAL CANCER; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GERM LINE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERPIGMENTATION; ONCOGENE C KIT; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; SKIN BIOPSY; STROMA;

EID: 0035174752     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/gast.2001.20880     Document Type: Article

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