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Epithelioid gastrointestinal stromal tumor of the stomach with liver metastases in a 12-year-old girl: aspiration cytology and molecular study.
Pediatric and developmental pathology : the official journal of the Society for Pediatric Pathology and the Paediatric Pathology Society - 1 Jan 2000
Li Peng, Wei Jianjun, West A Brian, Perle MaryAnn, Greco M Alba, Yang Grace C H
Abstract excerpt
Gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST), a stromal tumor of the gastrointestinal tract defined as CD117 (c-kit)-positive neoplasm, occurs primarily in adults. GIST with CD117 (c-kit) mutation and certain cytogenetic abnormalities is associated with malignancy, though a definite relationship between...
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