A large esophageal gastrointestinal stromal tumor that was successfully resected after neoadjuvant imatinib treatment: case report

A 49-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with a 1-month history of dysphagia. An upper endoscopy revealed a lower esophageal submucosal tumor. Immunohistochemical staining of the biopsy specimen revealed KIT positivity. Thus, the tumor was diagnosed as a gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST)....

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Autores principales: Yanagawa, Senichiro, Tanabe, Kazuaki, Suzuki, Takahisa, Tokumoto, Noriaki, Arihiro, Koji, Ohdan, Hideki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3943276/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24575748
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-12-47

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3943276/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24575748
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-12-47

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