Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the ascending colon in adults manifested by positive fecal occult blood test

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 214-216

  Tanaka, Akira ^a   Hirabayashi, Kenichi ^a   Sadahiro, Sotaro ^a   Maeda, Yuji ^a   Suzuki, Toshiyuki ^a   Ogoshi, Kyoji ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASTIC LYMPHOMA KINASE; CALPONIN; CD34 ANTIGEN; CYTOKERATIN; DESMIN; PROTEIN S 100; SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; STEM CELL FACTOR; VIMENTIN;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; ASCENDING COLON PLASMA CELL GRANULOMA; CASE REPORT; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLONOSCOPY; HEMICOLECTOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE BIOPSY; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; MICROSCOPY; OCCULT BLOOD; PLASMA CELL GRANULOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINDLE CELL;

AGED; COLECTOMY; COLON, ASCENDING; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONOSCOPY; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS, MUSCLE TISSUE; OCCULT BLOOD;

EID: 73049107337     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2009.06.006     Document Type: Article

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