Malignant tumor, of the gastrointestinal stromal tumor type, in the greater omentum

Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 985-988

  Suzuki, Kazufumi ^a,b   Kaneko, Gengo ^b   Kubota, Kouji ^b   Horigome, Naoto ^b   Hikita, Hitoshi ^b   Senga, Osamu ^b   Miyakawa, Makoto ^b   Shimojo, Hisashi ^b   Uehara, Takeshi ^b   Itoh, Nobuo ^b  

^a Department of Surgery   (Japan)

^b Iida Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST); Greater omentum; Immunohistochemistry; Mesenchymal tumor

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ANGIOGRAPHY; ABDOMINAL MASS; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ABDOMINAL TUMOR; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CANCER CENTER; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEATH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GASTROEPIPLOIC ARTERY; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; GREATER OMENTUM; HEMOPERITONEUM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOVOLEMIC SHOCK; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE LOOP; LAPAROTOMY; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERITONEAL CAVITY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH TUMOR; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; ANTIGENS, TUMOR-ASSOCIATED, CARBOHYDRATE; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; OMENTUM; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 10744230742     PISSN: 09441174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00535-003-1182-z     Document Type: Article

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