Small gastrointestinal stromal tumor of the stomach showing rapid growth and early metastasis to the liver

Digestive Endoscopy

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 354-356

  Tanaka, Junji ^a   Oshima, Tadayuki ^a   Hori, Kazutoshi ^a   Tomita, Toshihiko ^a   Kim, Yongmin ^a   Watari, Jiro ^a   Oh, Koushi ^a   Hirota, Seiichi ^a   Matsumoto, Takayuki ^a   Miwa, Hiroto ^a  

^a HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

gastrointestinal stromal tumor; mutation; stomach

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HEMOGLOBIN; IMATINIB;

AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CARDIA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CODON; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEATH; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDOSCOPY; EXON; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; GENE MUTATION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; ONCOGENE C KIT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SPINDLE CELL; STOMACH BIOPSY; STOMACH TUMOR; STOMACH ULCER; STOMACH WALL; TOTAL STOMACH RESECTION; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FATAL OUTCOME; GASTRECTOMY; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMORS; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; PIPERAZINES; PYRIMIDINES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77957284275     PISSN: 09155635     EISSN: 14431661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1443-1661.2010.01032.x     Document Type: Article

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