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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors, intramural leiomyomas, and leiomyosarcomas in the rectum and anus: a clinicopathologic, immunohistochemical, and molecular genetic study of 144 cases.
The American journal of surgical pathology - 1 Sept 2001
Miettinen M, Furlong M, Sarlomo-Rikala M, Burke A, Sobin L H, Lasota J
Abstract excerpt
Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs), the specific KIT-positive mesenchymal tumors of the gastrointestinal tract, have been sporadically reported in the rectum, but there are few clinicopathologic series. In this study we analyzed the clinicopathologic features of 133 anorectal GISTs, 3 intramural leiomyomas (LMs), and 8 leiomyosarcomas (LMSs) from the files of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and the...
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