Prevalence and management of gastrointestinal stromal tumors

American Surgeon

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 55-60

  Machado Aranda, David ^a   Malamet, Matthew ^a   Chang, Yeon Jeen ^a   Jacobs, Michael J ^a   Ferguson, Lorenzo ^a   Silapaswan, Sumet ^a   Goriel, Yousif ^a   Kolachalam, R ^a   Mittal, Vijay K ^a  

^a PROVIDENCE HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMATINIB; STEM CELL FACTOR; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL MASS; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CANCER CENTER; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GRADING; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; DEMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ENDOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREVALENCE; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TELEPHONE; VAGINA; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; COHORT STUDIES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMORS; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 61449249193     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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