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Gastrointestinal stromal tumours.
Annales chirurgiae et gynaecologiae - 1 Jan 1998
Miettinen M, Sarlomo-Rikala M, Lasota J
Abstract excerpt
Gastrointestinal stromal tumour (GIST) is the designation used here to identify the most common subset of gastrointestinal mesenchymal tumours specific to those sites. These tumours have unique histological, immunophenotypic and molecular genetic features that set them apart from typical smooth muscle tumours and schwannomas; however, by tradition, they have been classified as GI-smooth muscle tumours, or stromal...
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