gastrointestinal tumors
Ligation-assisted endoscopic enucleation for the diagnosis and resection of small gastrointestinal tumors originating from the muscularis propria: a preliminary study
... Gastrointestinal tumors of muscularis propria origin in- clude leiomyomas, GISTs, neural tumors, and ...mesenchymal tumors of the gastrointestinal ...
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Molecular Diagnosis of Gastrointestinal Tumors
... Juxtamembrane domain (exon 11) Juxtamembrane domain (exon 12) Extracellular domain (exon 9) Ligand-binding domain Tyrosine kinse II domain (exon 18) Imatinib (Gleevec) snsitive mut Gleev[r] ...
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Non-Coding RNAs and Resistance to Anticancer Drugs in Gastrointestinal Tumors.
... In this review we summarise the role of non-coding RNAs for different mechanisms resulting in drug resistance (e.g. drug transport, drug metabolism, cell cycle regulation, regulation of [r] ...
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Role of intravenous iron in the treatment of anemia in patients with gastrointestinal tract tumors undergoing chemotherapy: a single-center, observational study
... The study included 30 adults (n = 30), 18 men and 12 women with gastrointestinal tumors undergoing palliative or adjuvant chemotherapy diagnosed with iron-deficiency anemia. Inclusion criteria were Hb ≤ 11 ...
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Synchronous gastrointestinal cancer and gastrointestinal stromal tumors: a single institution experience
... the gastrointestinal tumors, which re- veals a conspicuous discrepancy between the two ...two tumors is still ...of tumors of differ- ent origins in the same organ, such as the gene mutation ...
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Role of Immunohistochemical Studies in Neuroendocrine Tumors of Gastrointestinal Tract.
... the gastrointestinal tract ...other gastrointestinal sites (stomach) and extraintestinal sites like prostate and ...in gastrointestinal tumors with neuroendocrine differentiation, upto five ...
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Management of hemorrhage in gastrointestinal stromal tumors: a review
... of gastrointestinal bleeding in GIST The causes of intraluminal hemorrhage of GISTs may be related to mucosal and submucosal destruction by tumor growth, invasion of nutrient vessels leading to vascular rup- ture, ...
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Pattern of Upper Gastrointestinal Malignancies as Seen at Endoscopy in Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Ado Ekiti, Nigeria
... upper gastrointestinal tumors seen in patients who underwent upper gastrointestinal endoscopy at the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Ado-Ekiti, ...
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Non-Hodgkin lymphoma and GIST: molecular pathways and clinical expressions
... A diffuse large-cell lymphoma (DLCL) of B-cell origin is a lymphoid neoplasm with diverse clinical manifestations. These neoplasms present as masses and grow rapidly, and cause symptoms when they infiltrate tissues or ...
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Management Colorectal Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors (Gists) in Surabaya
... Immunohistochemically, GISTs are usually positive for KIT (CD117), a transmembrane receptor that is nor- mally expressed on the myenteric plexus of the normal adult, among others tissues. All our cases immunocyto- ...
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Motesanib inhibits Kit mutations associated with gastrointestinal stromal tumors
... Motesanib is an orally administered small-molecule antagonist of vascular endothelial growth factor recep- tors (VEGFR) 1, 2, and 3; PDGFR and Kit [9,10]. In clini- cal studies, motesanib has shown encouraging efficacy ...
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Prognostic impact of gastrointestinal bleeding and expression of PTEN and Ki 67 on primary gastrointestinal stromal tumors
... GI: gastrointestinal; GIST: gastrointestinal stromal tumor; H & E: hematoxylin and eosin; ICC: interclass correlation coefficient; IgG: immunoglobulin G; IHC: immunohistochemistry; IM: imatinib ...
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Ménétrier disease and gastrointestinal stromal tumors: hyperproliferative disorders of the stomach
... Ménétrier disease and gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are hyperproliferative disorders of the stomach caused by dysregulated receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs). In Ménétrier disease, overexpression of ...
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Collision tumors in the gastrointestinal tract: a rare case series
... Due to the lack of any large series with long-term follow-up, the prognosis of such tumors has not been properly clarified. However, it seems that the survival rate is similar to that of patients with gastric ...
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Update on imatinib for gastrointestinal stromal tumors: duration of treatment
... Abstract: Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are the most common sarcoma of the gastrointestinal tract, with transformation typically driven by activating mutations of c-KIT and less commonly ...
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Update on the treatment of gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs): role of imatinib
... whose tumors were not growing at the time of surgery, limited disease progression or generalized disease progression) and surgical result (no evidence of disease, minimal residual disease or bulky residual ...
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Epidemiology, survival, and costs of localized gastrointestinal stromal tumors
... sensitivity analyses using different algorithms to identify recurrence. First, we shortened the time interval between initial surgical resection and detection of a recurrence from 90 to 60 days using the original ...
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Adding trans-abdominal elastography to the diagnostic tool for an ileal gastrointestinal stromal tumor: a case report
... Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs), although rare, are the most common submucosal tumors (SMTs) of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract [1]. GISTs may arise from any- where throughout the ...
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Molecular subtypes of gastrointestinal stromal tumors and their prognostic and therapeutic implications.
... in tumors’ >5 cm ...of tumors bearing KIT ...of tumors with KIT delinc557/558, within which tumor size, mitotic rate and fraction of high-risk tumors were also significantly higher than in ...
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Aims and Objectives: To study the tumours of stomach with respect to etiology, site and histological types. Material and Methods: This Histopathological study of tumors of stomach and intestines’ was carried out
... the gastrointestinal tract show a wide variation in the histological type making the histopathological examination a must in the diagnosis of these ...with tumors of the gastrointestinal tract play ...
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