Gastrointestinal stromal tumors: Clinical, radiologic, and pathologic features

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 184, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 803-811

  Sandrasegaran, Kumaresan ^a   Rajesh, Arumugam ^a   Rydberg, Jonas ^a   Rushing, Daniel A ^b   Akisik, Fatih M ^a   Henley, John D ^b  

^a Department of Surgical Pathology   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESMIN; GADOLINIUM; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IMATINIB; PROTEIN S 100; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR; VIMENTIN;

ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CHROMOSOME 4; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DRUG INHIBITION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCIDENCE; INTESTINE TUMOR; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MESENTERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OMENTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPERITONEUM; TUMOR VOLUME; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; MALE; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMORS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS;

EID: 16244362349     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.184.3.01840803     Document Type: Article

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