Fatal abdominal sarcomatosis secondary to gastrointestinal stromal tumor with bland histology

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1469-1472

  Elshenawy, Yasmin M ^a   Ganote, Charles E ^a   Al Abbadi, Mousa A ^a  

^a EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ABDOMINAL MASS; ABDOMINAL SARCOMATOSIS; ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ABDOMINAL TUMOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCITES; ASCITES FLUID; AUTOPSY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CANCER MORPHOLOGY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DYSPNEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FATALITY; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MITOSIS RATE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PARACENTESIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SEPTIC SHOCK; SPINDLE CELL; STAINING;

ASCITES; AUTOPSY; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FATAL OUTCOME; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMORS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MESENTERY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; SARCOMA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70449633391     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: 16583175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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