Extragastrointestinal stromal tumor of the greater omentum: Case report and review of the literature

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 50, Issue 51, 2003, Pages 691-695

  Nakagawa, Motohito ^a   Akasaka, Yoshikiyo ^b   Kanai, Toshio ^a   Yamashita, Tomohiro ^a   Kuroda, Masahiko ^c   Takayama, Hideaki ^a   Miyazawa, Naoto ^a  

^a Hiratsuka City Hospital   (Japan)

^b TOHO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

C kit; Gastrointestinal stromal tumor; Immunohistochemistry; Tyrosine kinase receptor

Indexed keywords

CD34 ANTIGEN; KI 67 ANTIGEN; STEM CELL FACTOR; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR; TYROSINE KINASE RECEPTOR;

ABDOMINAL ANGIOGRAPHY; ABDOMINAL TUMOR; ADULT; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; ECHOGRAPHY; EXTRAGASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; GENE ISOLATION; GREATER OMENTUM TUMOR; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE TUMOR; MALE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MITOSIS RATE; OMENTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TLS FUS CHOP GENE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, CD34; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, MESOTHELIAL; OMENTUM; PERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0037902135     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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