Can fine needle aspiration cytology adequately diagnose and predict the behavior of gastrointestinal stromal tumors?

Advances in Anatomic Pathology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 93-97

  Debol, Steven M ^a   Stanley, Michael W ^a   Mallery, J Shawn ^a  

^a HENNEPIN COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytology; Endoscopy; Fine needle aspiration; Gastrointestinal stromal tumor; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

TUMOR MARKER; TUMOR PROTEIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH TUMOR; STROMA CELL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; STROMAL CELLS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0035286544     PISSN: 10724109     EISSN: 15334031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00125480-200103000-00005     Document Type: Note

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