AGAI Technical Review Statements Regarding GIST Are Troubling

Gastroenterology

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 822-823

  Royster, Julia D ^a  

^a GIST Support International   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; HUMAN; LETTER; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH BIOPSY; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 33847229816     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2006.12.042     Document Type: Letter

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