Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors

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Over the last decade, gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) have evolved from histogenetically obscure gastrointestinal mesenchymal tumors to well-defined tumors with distinctive clinical, morphologic, ultrastructural, histogenetic, and molecular characteristics, for which targeted therapy is available. This is largely attributable to the discovery of CD117 overexpression and activating mutations in c-kit or...

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