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[Therapeutic targets in gastrointestinal stromal tumors].
Verhandlungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Pathologie - 1 Jan 2006
Wardelmann E, Schildhaus H-U, Merkelbach-Bruse S, Büttner R
Abstract excerpt
Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs), the most common mesenchymal tumors in the gastrointestinal tract, metastasize in up to 50 % of cases and are resistant to conventional radio- and chemotherapy. They are characterized by the expression of the type III receptor tyrosine kinase KIT which is the most important diagnostic immunohistochemical feature. Genomically, the majority of GISTs carry heterozygous...
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