Metastatic epithelioid gastrointestinal stromal tumor: Yet another tumor with anemone cell features

Ultrastructural Pathology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 95-100

  Shia, Jinru ^a   Erlandson, Robert A ^a   Antonescu, Cristina R ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anemone cell tumor; Electron microscopy; Epitheloid tumor; GIST

Indexed keywords

IMATINIB;

ADOLESCENT; ANEMONE CELL TUMOR; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; HISTOGENESIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIVER METASTASIS; METASTASIS; MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH SARCOMA; TUMOR;

ADOLESCENT; DIAPHRAGM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROVILLI; PELVIC NEOPLASMS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SARCOMA; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; STROMAL CELLS;

ANEMONE;

EID: 0038136781     PISSN: 01913123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01913120309931     Document Type: Article

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