Microscopic gastrointestinal stromal tumors in esophageal and intestinal surgical resection specimens: A clinicopathologic, immunohistochemical, and molecular study of 19 lesions

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 867-873

  Agaimy, Abbas ^a,c   Wünsch, Peter H ^a   Dirnhofer, Stephan ^b   Bihl, Michel P ^b   Terracciano, Luigi M ^b   Tornillo, Luigi ^b  

^a Institute of Pathology   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c KLINIKUM NÜRNBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD34 ANTIGEN; SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DIVERTICULOSIS; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; EXON; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; GENE DELETION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE SURGERY; MALE; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GENETICS; INTESTINE TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMORS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 46249114153     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: 15320979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAS.0b013e31815c0417     Document Type: Article

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