Gastrointestinal stromal tumour of the oesophagus: Significance of immunohistochemical and genetic analyses of the c-kit gene

European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 445-448

  Iijima, Shin ^a   Maesawa, Chihaya ^a   Sato, Nobuhiro ^a   Ikeda, Kenichiro ^a   Inaba, Toru ^a   Akiyama, Yushi ^a   Ishida, Kaoru ^a   Saito, Kazuyoshi ^a   Masuda, Tomoyuki ^a  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

c kit; CD34; Gastrointestinal stromal tumour; Oesophagus

Indexed keywords

CD34 ANTIGEN; DNA; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; KI 67 ANTIGEN; NEURON SPECIFIC ENOLASE; STEM CELL FACTOR; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CODON; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS BIOPSY; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

AGED; ANTIGENS, CD34; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PROGNOSIS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT;

EID: 0036232194     PISSN: 0954691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00042737-200204000-00020     Document Type: Article

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