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Gastrointestinal stromal tumours – an update for histopathologists
13 Jun 2011
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This review aims to summarize recent knowledge gained about gastrointestinal stromal tumour (GIST) of particular relevance to histopathologists. KIT and PDGFRA mutation analyses can be useful for confirming a diagnosis of GIST, but there are some diagnostic limitations to these analyses, and so immunohistochemical markers currently remain crucial to the diagnostic process. Of these markers, CD117 and Discovered...
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