Jejunal Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor: A Cause of Obscure Gastrointestinal Bleeding

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 214-217

  Sass, David A ^a,b   Chopra, Kapil B ^a   Finkelstein, Sydney D ^a   Schauer, Philip R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Division of Gastroenterology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; HEMATOCHEZIA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; JEJUNUM TUMOR; LAPAROSCOPY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; SYMPTOM;

ADULT; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; JEJUNAL NEOPLASMS; STROMAL CELLS;

EID: 0742301233     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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