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Small bud of probable gastrointestinal stromal tumor within a laparoscopically-resected gastric schwannoma.
International journal of clinical oncology - 1 Jun 2012
Cho Haruhiko, Watanabe Takafumi, Aoyama Toru, Hayashi Tsutomu, Yamada Takanobu, Ogata Takashi, Yoshikawa Takaki, Tsuburaya Akira, Sekiguchi Hironobu, Nakamura Yoshiyasu, Sakuma Yuji, Kameda Yoichi, Miyagi Yohei
Abstract excerpt
Submucosal tumors (SMTs) of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract can be potentially difficulty to diagnose pathologically. We report a case of a gastric SMT that was resected by laparoscopic partial gastrectomy. Although the initial histological and immunohistochemical examinations considered the tumor as a schwannoma, mRNA-based KIT genotyping indicated that the tumor included cells with KIT gene expression, and that...
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