Plexiform fibromyxoma: A distinctive benign gastric antral neoplasm not to be confused with a myxoid GIST

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1624-1632

  Miettinen, Markku ^a   Makhlouf, Hala R ^a   Sobin, Leslie H ^a   Lasota, Jerzy ^a  

^a ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antrum; Fibroid polyp; Fibromyxoma; GIST; KIT; Myxoma; PDGFRA; Stomach

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; CD34 ANTIBODY; COMMON ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA ANTIGEN; DESMIN; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; PROTEIN S 100; STEM CELL FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CELL INVASION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MITOSIS; MITOSIS RATE; MUTATION; MYXOMA; NERVE SHEATH TUMOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SPINDLE CELL; STOMACH ANTRUM; TUMOR CELL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FIBROMA; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMORS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PYLORIC ANTRUM; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350450356     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: 15320979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAS.0b013e3181ae666a     Document Type: Article

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