Gastrointestinal stromal tumors: Insights from a new familial GIST kindred with unusual genetic and pathologic features

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1680-1683

  O'Riain, Ciarán ^a   Corless, Christopher L ^b   Heinrich, Michael C ^b   Keegan, Denise ^a   Vioreanu, Mihai ^a   Maguire, Donal ^a   Sheahan, Kieran ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diverticulosis; Gastrointestinal stromal tumors; Germline mutation; Interstitial cells of Cajal; KIT

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; TYROSINE; DNA; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CANCER GROWTH; CASE REPORT; CELL FUNCTION; CELL HYPERPLASIA; CONFERENCE PAPER; DYSPHAGIA; EXON; FAMILIAL CANCER; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; GERM CELL; HETEROZYGOSITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL CELL OF CAJAL; INTESTINE DIVERTICULOSIS; INTESTINE PERFORATION; MALE; ONCOGENE C KIT; POINT MUTATION; RARE DISEASE; SKIN PIGMENTATION; WILD TYPE; ARTICLE; COILED BODY; COLON RESECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOCHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GASTRECTOMY; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HYPERPLASIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER; LIVER RESECTION; METABOLISM; METASTASIS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PATHOLOGY; PEDIGREE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; ALLELES; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; COILED BODIES; COLECTOMY; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, NEOPLASM; EXONS; GASTRECTOMY; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMORS; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HEPATECTOMY; HETEROZYGOTE; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; HYPERPLASIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER; MALE; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PEDIGREE; POINT MUTATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUMOR BURDEN; TYROSINE;

EID: 33644812236     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.pas.0000173024.79852.08     Document Type: Conference Paper

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