Comparative ultrastructural analysis and KIT/PDGFRA genotype in 125 gastrointestinal stromal tumors

Ultrastructural Pathology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 443-452

  Agaram, Narasimhan P ^a   Baren, Ann ^a   Arkun, Knarik ^a   DeMatteo, Ronald P ^a   Besmer, Peter ^a   Antonescu, Cristina R ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Gastrointestinal stromal tumor; Interstitial cell of Cajal; KIT; PDGFRA; Receptor tyrosine kinase; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

ACTIN;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EPITHELIOID CELL; EXON; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROFILAMENT; MICROTUBULE; NEUROSECRETORY CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SMALL INTESTINE; SPINDLE CELL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMORS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; RECEPTOR, PLATELET-DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA; RECTUM; STOMACH;

EID: 33845903054     PISSN: 01913123     EISSN: 15210758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01913120600854186     Document Type: Article

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