Gastrointestinal stromal tumours and their response to treatment with the tyrosine kinase inhibitor imatinib

Virchows Archiv

Volumn 444, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 108-118

  Mechtersheimer, Gunhild ^a   Egerer, Gerlinde ^a   Hensel, Manfred ^a   Rieker, Ralf J ^a   Libicher, Martin ^a   Lehnert, Thomas ^a   Penzel, Roland ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

GIST; Imatinib; KIT; PDGF R ; RTK inhibitor; Targeted therapy

Indexed keywords

ABELSON KINASE; ALPHA INTERFERON; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CYTOSTATIC AGENT; IMATINIB; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA RECEPTOR; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE INHIBITOR; STEM CELL FACTOR; TRASTUZUMAB;

ABDOMINAL BLEEDING; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; BREAST CANCER; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DERMATOFIBROSARCOMA PROTUBERANS; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG TARGETING; EDEMA; FATIGUE; GASTRECTOMY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER RESECTION; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TARGETING; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOLID TUMOR; SPLENECTOMY; TUMOR BLEEDING; VOMITING;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; PIPERAZINES; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; PYRIMIDINES; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STROMAL CELLS;

EID: 1542315370     PISSN: 09456317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00428-003-0945-5     Document Type: Review

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