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Fine-needle aspiration biopsy diagnosis of gastrointestinal stromal tumors using morphology, immunocytochemistry, and mutational analysis of c-kit

Anne E. Rader, Anne C. Avery, Cecily L. Wait, Laura McGreevey, Douglas O. Faigel, Michael C. Heinrich

Cancer · 2001 · 123 citations · 24 references

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Ancillary techniques such as immunocytochemistry and c-kit gene mutational analysis may aid in the diagnosis of GISTs on FNABs.

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Gastrointestinal pacemaker cell tumor (GIPACT): gastrointestinal stromal tumors show phenotypic characteristics of the interstitial cells of Cajal.

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KIT Extracellular and Kinase Domain Mutations in Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors

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Prognosis of Gastrointestinal Smooth-Muscle (Stromal) Tumors

Theresa S. Emory, Leslie H. Sobin, Laura Lukes et al. · The American Journal of Surgical Pathology · 1999 · 626 citations

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