Systemic mastocytosis involving the gastrointestinal tract: Clinicopathologic and molecular study of five cases

Modern Pathology

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1508-1516

  Kirsch, Richard ^a   Geboes, Karel ^b   Shepherd, Neil A ^c   De Hertogh, Gert ^b   Di Nicola, Nando ^a   Lebel, Sylvie ^d   Mickys, Ugnius ^e   Riddell, Robert H ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c GLOUCESTERSHIRE ROYAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e National Center of Pathology   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

D816V; Gastrointestinal; Mast cell; Pathology; Systemic mastocytosis

Indexed keywords

EOSIN; FORMALDEHYDE; HEMATOXYLIN; PARAFFIN; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR; TRYPTASE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL INFILTRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON; DIARRHEA; DUODENUM; ENDOSCOPY; ENTERITIS; EOSINOPHILIC COLITIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE MUTATION; GROWTH RETARDATION; HISTIOCYTE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; ILEUM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LAMINA PROPRIA; LOOSE FECES; MALABSORPTION; MAST CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SYSTEMIC MASTOCYTOSIS; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; MASTOCYTOSIS, SYSTEMIC; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT;

EID: 56649094373     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: 15300285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.2008.158     Document Type: Article

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