Gastrointestinal stromal tumors. A multicenter experience

Polish Journal of Pathology

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 51-61

  Urbańczyk, Katarzyna ^a,h   Limon, Janusz ^b   Korobowicz, Elzbieta ^c   Chosia, Maria ^d   Sygut, Jacek ^e   Karcz, Danuta ^a   Iwanik, Katarzyna ^f   Osuch, Czesław ^a   Lasota, Jerzy ^g   Stachura, Jerzy ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN   (Poland)

^d POMERANIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^e Swietokrzyskie Centrum Onkologii Poland   (Poland)

^f POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

^g ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^h NONE   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; CD34 ANTIGEN; PROTEIN S 100; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CELL STRUCTURE; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSEMINATED CANCER; EPITHELIOID CELL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE TUMOR; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMALL INTESTINE TUMOR; SPINDLE CELL CARCINOMA; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMORS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 22344443745     PISSN: 12339687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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