Minute Gastric Sclerosing Stromal Tumors (GIST Tumorlets) are common in adults and frequently show c-KIT mutations

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 113-120

  Agaimy, Abbas ^a,d   Wünsch, Peter H ^a   Hofstaedter, Ferdinand ^b   Blaszyk, Hagen ^c   Rümmele, Petra ^b   Gaumann, Andreas ^b   Dietmaier, Wolfgang ^b   Hartmann, Arndt ^b  

^a Institute of Pathology   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d KLINIKUM NÜRNBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

GIST; ICC hyperplasia; Precursor; Stomach; Tumorlet

Indexed keywords

STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; GENE MUTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYALINE DEGENERATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINDLE CELL; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMORS; HUMANS; HYPERPLASIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; SCLEROSIS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33845940073     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.pas.0000213307.05811.f0     Document Type: Article

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