[Gastrointestinal stromal tumors: current issues].

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Gastrointestinal stromal tumours are rare neoplasms originating from the connective tissue of the digestive tract and constitute most of the non-epithelial primitive digestive tumours, with a percentage incidence of less than 1%. The term itself was first used in 1983 by Mazur and Clark to identify a heterogeneous group of tumours, all of them histologically characterised by hyperplastic fused cells, not...

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