Synchronous early gastric cancer and gastrointestinal stromal tumor in the stomach of a patient with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura

Journal of Digestive Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 104-107

  Villias, Constantinos ^a   Gourgiotis, Stavros ^c   Veloudis, George ^a   Sampaziotis, Dimitrios ^b   Moreas, Hercules ^b  

^a Second Surgical Department   (Bulgaria)

^b 401 GENERAL MILITARY HOSPITAL OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD34 ANTIGEN; CD57 ANTIGEN; DESMIN; PROTEIN S 100; SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE DURATION; DYSPEPSIA; EARLY CANCER; ELECTIVE SURGERY; GASTRECTOMY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; HEMATOCRIT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; SPLENECTOMY; STOMACH BIOPSY; STOMACH CANCER; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ANTIGENS, CD34; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMORS; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; PURPURA, THROMBOCYTOPENIC, IDIOPATHIC; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 42449113375     PISSN: 17512972     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-2980.2008.00330.x     Document Type: Article

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