Gastrointestinal Kaposi's sarcoma: CD117 expression and the potential for misdiagnosis as gastrointestinal stromal tumour

Histopathology

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 816-823

  Parfitt, J R ^a   Rodriguez Justo, M ^b   Feakins, R ^c   Novelli, M R ^b  

^a London Health Sciences ^*  (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CD117; DOG1; GIST; Kaposi's sarcoma; KIT

Indexed keywords

CD34 ANTIBODY; HEMOSIDERIN; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ERYTHROCYTE; EXTRAVASATION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 8; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFLAMMATION; KAPOSI SARCOMA; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINDLE CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR CELL;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMORS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; SARCOMA, KAPOSI; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; VIRAL PROTEINS;

HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 8;

EID: 44249095855     PISSN: 03090167     EISSN: 13652559     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2559.2008.03034.x     Document Type: Article

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