Comparison of histological analysis and endosonographic features in esophageal granular cell tumors

Digestive Endoscopy

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 284-288

  Yazumi, Shujiro ^a   Takahashi, Rei ^a   Kajiyama, Toru ^b   Nakase, Hiroshi ^a   Watanabe, Norihiko ^a   Ohana, Masaya ^a   Matsumoto, Shigemi ^a   Seno, Hiroshi ^a   Sawada, Mitsutaka ^a   Uchida, Kazushige ^a   Nabeshima, Motoshige ^a   Okazaki, Kazuichi ^a   Chiba, Tsutomu ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KANSAI DENRYOKU HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Esophageal granular cell tumor (GCT); Esophageal submucosal leiomyoma; High frequency probe endosonographic ultrasonography (EUS).

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS MUSCLE; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; GRANULAR CELL TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGING SYSTEM; LEIOMYOMA; MALE; MUCOSA; TUMOR CELL;

EID: 0344010232     PISSN: 09155635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1443-1661.2003.t01-1-00262.x     Document Type: Article

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