c-KIT positive Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor presenting with acute bleeding in a patient with neurofibromatosis type 1: a case report

BACKGROUND: Gastrointestinal stromal tumours are rare (GIST). However, the incidence of GIST among neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF-1) patients is approximately 3.9-25%. GIST can present clinically in different ways such as abdominal pain, gastrointestinal bleeding and obstruction. CASE REPORT: We prese...

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Autores principales: Aboutaleb, Esam, Kothari, Manish, Damrah, Osama, Canelo, Roben
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2776011/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19852778
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7800-6-17

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