Endoscopic Ultrasonography-Guided Diagnosis of Subepithelial Tumors

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Clinics of North America

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 187-205

  Alkhatib, Amer A ^a   Faigel, Douglas O ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Endoscopic ultrasonography; Fine needle aspiration; Gastrointestinal stromal tumor; Leiomyoma; Lipoma; Subepithelial tumors; Submucosal lesions

Indexed keywords

CD34 ANTIGEN; DESMIN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IMATINIB; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA RECEPTOR; PROTEIN S 100; SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR; SUNITINIB;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; ATROPHIC GASTRITIS; BIOPSY; BIOPSY DEVICE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURGERY; CARCINOID; CLINICAL FEATURE; COUGHING; CYST; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DUODENUM CARCINOID; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPNEA; ECTOPIC PANCREAS; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC MUCOSAL RESECTION; FOREGUT DUPLICATION CYST; GAIN OF FUNCTION MUTATION; GASTRIC SUBEPITHELIAL TUMOR; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPE; GASTROINTESTINAL GLOMUS TUMOR; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; GLOMUS TUMOR; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERGASTRINEMIA; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTUSSUSCEPTION; LEIOMYOMA; LIPOMA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEURILEMOMA; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CARCINOID; REVIEW; SATIETY; SEX RATIO; STOMACH CARCINOID; STOMACH METASTASIS; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; VISCERAL METASTASIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ZOLLINGER ELLISON SYNDROME;

BIOPSY; CARCINOID TUMOR; CHORISTOMA; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMORS; GLOMUS TUMOR; HUMANS; LEIOMYOMA; LIPOMA; NEURILEMMOMA; PANCREAS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84861474629     PISSN: 10525157     EISSN: 15581950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.giec.2012.04.006     Document Type: Review

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