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The incidence, mutational status, risk classification and referral pattern of gastro-intestinal stromal tumours in the Netherlands: a nationwide pathology registry (PALGA) study.
Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology - 1 Feb 2018
Verschoor Arie J, Bovée J V M G, Overbeek L I H, Hogendoorn P C W, Gelderblom H
Abstract excerpt
Symptomatic gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GIST) are infrequent with an incidence of 12.7 per million inhabitants in the western population. We studied whether the incidence of GIST has further increased between 2003 and 2012 and assessed the frequency of mutations, risk groups, histological subtypes and immunohistochemistry results. From PALGA, the nationwide Dutch Pathology Registry, pathology excerpts from...
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