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Metabolic pseudo-progression in a patient with metastatic KIT exon 11 GIST after one month of first-line imatinib: a case report
2023-04-17
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<h4>Background: </h4> Positron emission tomography (PET) with 18-fluorodeoxyglucose ( 18 FDG) has proven to be highly sensitive in early assessment of tumor response in GIST, especially in cases where there is doubt, or when early prediction of the response could be clinically useful for patient management. As widely known, kinase mutations have an undoubtful predictive value for sensitivity to imatinib and the in...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 02362641-0c8a-5795-8a49-6882978eb949
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- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2812984/v1
