Epithelioid variant of gastrointestinal stromal tumor: Diagnosis by fine-needle aspiration

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 55-60

  Dong, Qun ^a   McKee, Grace ^a   Pitman, Martha ^a   Geisinger, Kim ^b   Tambouret, Rosemary ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

c Kit; CD117; Cytology; Epithelioid; Gastrointestinal stromal tumor

Indexed keywords

STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR; TUMOR MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPATHOLOGY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LIVER ADENOMA; LIVER BIOPSY; MALE; METASTASIS; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN TUMOR; STOMACH TUMOR; STROMA CELL; TISSUE SECTION;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; STROMAL CELLS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0041737351     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dc.10293     Document Type: Article

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