Gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST)

Helen E. Remotti, Frank Aldenborg, Jeanne M. Meis-Kindblom, Lars Gunnar Kindblom, Gastrointestinal pacemaker cell tumor (GIPACT): gastrointestinal stromal tumors show phenotypic characteristics of the interstitial cells of Cajal. American Journal of Pathology. ,vol. 152, pp. 1259- 1269 ,(1998)

Wim G. Goettsch, Steffan D. Bos, Nancy Breekveldt-Postma, Mariel Casparie, Ron M.C. Herings, Pancras C.W. Hogendoorn, Incidence of gastrointestinal stromal tumours is underestimated: Results of a nation-wide study European Journal of Cancer. ,vol. 41, pp. 2868- 2872 ,(2005) , 10.1016/J.EJCA.2005.09.009

Bengt Nilsson, Per Bümming, Jeanne M. Meis-Kindblom, Anders Odén, Aydin Dortok, Bengt Gustavsson, Katarzyna Sablinska, Lars-Gunnar Kindblom, Gastrointestinal stromal tumors: the incidence, prevalence, clinical course, and prognostication in the preimatinib mesylate era--a population-based study in western Sweden. Cancer. ,vol. 103, pp. 821- 829 ,(2005) , 10.1002/CNCR.20862

Allan T van Oosterom, Ian Judson, Jaap Verweij, Sigrid Stroobants, Eugenio Donato di Paola, Sasa Dimitrijevic, Marc Martens, Andrew Webb, Raf Sciot, Martine Van Glabbeke, Sandra Silberman, Ole S Nielsen, Safety and efficacy of imatinib (STI571) in metastatic gastrointestinal stromal tumours: a phase I study. The Lancet. ,vol. 358, pp. 1421- 1423 ,(2001) , 10.1016/S0140-6736(01)06535-7

Christopher D.M. Fletcher, Jules J. Berman, Christopher Corless, Fred Gorstein, Jerzy Lasota, B.Jack Longley, Markku Miettinen, Timothy J. O'Leary, Helen Remotti, Brian P. Rubin, Barry Shmookler, Leslie H. Sobin, Sharon W. Weiss, Diagnosis of gastrointestinal stromal tumors: A consensus approach Human Pathology. ,vol. 33, pp. 459- 465 ,(2002) , 10.1053/HUPA.2002.123545

Geir Tryggvason, Hjörtur G Gíslason, Magnús K Magnússon, Jón G Jónasson, None, Gastrointestinal stromal tumors in Iceland, 1990-2003: The Icelandic GIST study, a population-based incidence and pathologic risk stratification study International Journal of Cancer. ,vol. 117, pp. 289- 293 ,(2005) , 10.1002/IJC.21167

Thomas Tran, Jessica A. Davila, Hashem B. El-Serag, The epidemiology of malignant gastrointestinal stromal tumors: an analysis of 1,458 cases from 1992 to 2000. The American Journal of Gastroenterology. ,vol. 100, pp. 162- 168 ,(2005) , 10.1111/J.1572-0241.2005.40709.X

Christopher D.M. Fletcher, Heikki Joensuu, George D. Demetri, Margaret von Mehren, Charles D. Blanke, Annick D. Van den Abbeele, Burton Eisenberg, Peter J. Roberts, Michael C. Heinrich, David A. Tuveson, Samuel Singer, Milos Janicek, Jonathan A. Fletcher, Stuart G. Silverman, Sandra L. Silberman, Renaud Capdeville, Beate Kiese, Bin Peng, Sasa Dimitrijevic, Brian J. Druker, Christopher Corless, Efficacy and safety of imatinib mesylate in advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumors. The New England Journal of Medicine. ,vol. 347, pp. 472- 480 ,(2002) , 10.1056/NEJMOA020461

Christopher L. Corless, Laura McGreevey, Andrea Haley, Ajia Town, Michael C. Heinrich, KIT mutations are common in incidental gastrointestinal stromal tumors one centimeter or less in size. American Journal of Pathology. ,vol. 160, pp. 1567- 1572 ,(2002) , 10.1016/S0002-9440(10)61103-0

Markku Miettinen, Leslie H Sobin, Jerzy Lasota, Gastrointestinal stromal tumors of the stomach: a clinicopathologic, immunohistochemical, and molecular genetic study of 1765 cases with long-term follow-up. The American Journal of Surgical Pathology. ,vol. 29, pp. 52- 68 ,(2005) , 10.1097/01.PAS.0000146010.92933.DE