A case of omental gastrointestinal stromal tumor and association with history of melanoma

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 342-344

  Cai, Ning ^a   Morgenstern, Nora ^a   Wasserman, Patricia ^a  

^a LONG ISLAND JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMA TUMOR; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LETTER; MELANOMA; ONCOGENE C KIT; PERITONEUM TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROMA TUMOR;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MELANOMA; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; PERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; SARCOMA; SKIN NEOPLASMS; STROMAL CELLS;

EID: 0037636601     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dc.10292     Document Type: Letter

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