Clinicopathologic study of primary malignant gastrointestinal stromal tumor of the stomach, with special reference to prognostic factors: Analysis of results in 140 surgically resected patients

Gastric Cancer

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 39-48

  Fujimoto, Yoshiya ^a   Nakanishi, Yukihiro ^b   Yoshimura, Kimio ^b   Shimoda, Tadakazu ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Clinicopathologic study; Malignant gastric GIST; Multivariate analysis Immunohistochemistry; Prognostic factor

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; CALDESMON; CD34 ANTIGEN; DESMIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY KI 67; PROTEIN S 100; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR; VIMENTIN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BONE METASTASIS; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL COUNT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TYPE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LIVER METASTASIS; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITOSIS INDEX; MITOSIS RATE; MORTALITY; MOUSE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR ATYPIA; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOID CUFFING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEX; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOMACH CANCER; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR NECROSIS; TUMOR VOLUME; ULCER;

ADULT; AGED; CALMODULIN-BINDING PROTEINS; DESMIN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTRECTOMY; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; JAPAN; KI-67 ANTIGEN; LEIOMYOMA, EPITHELIOID; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NECROSIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; S100 PROTEINS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STOMACH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; VIMENTIN;

EID: 0037263582     PISSN: 14363291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s101200300005     Document Type: Article

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