Gastrointestinal stromal tumors of the stomach in children and young adults: A clinicopathologic, immunohistochemical, and molecular genetic study of 44 cases with long-term follow-up and review of the literature

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1373-1381

  Miettinen, Markku ^a   Lasota, Jerzy ^a   Sobin, Leslie H ^a  

^a ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Child; Gastrointestinal stromal tumor; KIT; Mutation; PDGFRA; Prognosis; Stomach

Indexed keywords

CD34 ANTIGEN; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA RECEPTOR; STEM CELL FACTOR;

ADULT; ANEMIA; CHONDROMA; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; EPITHELIOID CELL; EXON; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; GENE MUTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; MESENCHYMOMA; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOLOGY; PATHOGENESIS; PERITONEUM METASTASIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RARE DISEASE; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINDLE CELL; STOMACH ANTRUM; SURVIVAL; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIGENS, CD34; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMORS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PROGNOSIS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; RECEPTOR, PLATELET-DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 25444494428     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.pas.0000172190.79552.8b     Document Type: Review

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