Rectal GIST presenting as a submucosal calculus

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1047-1049

  Testroote, Mark ^a   Hoornweg, Marije ^a   Rhemrev, Steven ^a  

^a MEDICAL CENTER HAAGLANDEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Calculus; Gastrointestinal stromal tumors; Rectal tumor

Indexed keywords

CD34 ANTIGEN; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTIPATION; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE RADIOGRAPHY; LEIOMYOMA; MALE; NEURINOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RECTUM; RECTUM TUMOR; SUBMUCOSA;

CALCINOSIS; CALCULI; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMORS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECTAL DISEASES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URETERAL CALCULI;

EID: 33947608168     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-006-9160-y     Document Type: Article

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