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Blay JY, Bonvalot S, Casali P, Choi H, Debiec-Richter M, Dei Tos AP, Emile JF, Gronchi A, Hogendoorn PC, Joensuu H, Le Cesne A, McClure J, Maurel J, Nupponen N, Ray-Coquard I, Reichardt P, Sciot R, Stroobants S, van Glabbeke M, van Oosterom A, Demetri GD; GIST consensus meeting panelists.
Consensus meeting for the management of gastrointestinal stromal tumors. Report of the GIST Consensus Conference of 20-21 March 2004, under the auspices of ESMO.
Ann Oncol. 2005 Apr;16(4):566-78.
PMID: 15781488 (free access in PubMed)

Corless CL, Fletcher JA, Heinrich MC.
Biology of gastrointestinal stromal tumors.
J Clin Oncol. 2004 Sep 15;22(18):3813-25.
PMID: 15365079

Gold JS and DeMatteo RP.
Combined Surgical and Molecular Therapy: The Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor Model
Ann Surg. 2006 August; 244(2): 176–184.
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Miettinen M, Lasota J.
Gastrointestinal stromal tumors: review on morphology, molecular pathology, prognosis, and differential diagnosis.
Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2006 Oct;130(10):1466-78. PMID: 17090188
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NCCN Task Force Report: Optimal Management of Patients with GIST — Update of the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines.

van der Zwan SM, DeMatteo RP.
Gastrointestinal stromal tumor: 5 years later.
Cancer. 2005 Nov 1;104(9):1781-8.
PMID: 16136600 (free access via PubMed link)

von Mehren M, Watson JC.
Gastrointestinal stromal tumors.
Hematol Oncol Clin North Am. 2005 Jun;19(3):547-64, vii.
PMID: 15939196

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Chen H, Hirota S, Isozaki K, Sun H, Ohashi A, Kinoshita K, O’Brien P, Kapusta L, Dardick I, Obayashi T, Okazaki T, Shinomura Y, Matsuzawa Y, Kitamura Y.
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Chen LL, Trent JC, Wu EF, Fuller GN, Ramdas L, Zhang W, Raymond AK, Prieto VG, Oyedeji CO, Hunt KK, Pollock RE, Feig BW, Hayes KJ, Choi H, Macapinlac HA, Hittelman W, Velasco MA, Patel S, Burgess MA, Benjamin RS, Frazier ML.
A missense mutation in KIT kinase domain 1 correlates with imatinib resistance in gastrointestinal stromal tumors.
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Cheng SP, Huang MJ, Yang TL, Tzen CY, Liu CL, Liu TP, Hsiao SC.
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Dig Dis Sci. 2004 Aug;49(7-8):1165-9. PMID: 15387340

Cho S, Kitadai Y, Yoshida S, Tanaka S, Yoshihara M, Yoshida K, Chayama K.
Deletion of the KIT gene is associated with liver metastasis and poor prognosis in patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumor in the stomach.
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Chompret A, Kannengiesser C, Barrois M, Terrier P, Dahan P, Tursz T, Lenoir GM, Bressac-De Paillerets B.
PDGFRA germline mutation in a family with multiple cases of gastrointestinal stromal tumor.
Gastroenterology. 2004 Jan;126(1):318-21. PMID: 14699510

Corless CL, Schroeder A, Griffith D, Town A, McGreevey L, Harrell P, Shiraga S, Bainbridge T, Morich J, Heinrich MC.
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Corless CL, Fletcher JA, Heinrich MC.
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J Clin Oncol. 2004 Sep 15;22(18):3813-25. PMID: 15365079

Cypriano MS, Jenkins JJ, Pappo AS, Rao BN, Daw NC.
Pediatric gastrointestinal stromal tumors and leiomyosarcoma.
Cancer. 2004 Jul 1;101(1):39-50. PMID: 15221987

Debiec-Rychter M, Sciot R, Le Cesne A, Schlemmer M, Hohenberger P, van Oosterom AT, Blay JY, Leyvraz S, Stul M, Casali PG, Zalcberg J, Verweij J, Van Glabbeke M, Hagemeijer A, Judson I; EORTC Soft Tissue and Bone Sarcoma Group; The Italian Sarcoma Group; Australasian GastroIntestinal Trials Group.
KIT mutations and dose selection for imatinib in patients with advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumours.
Eur J Cancer. 2006 May;42(8):1093-103. PMID: 16624552

Debiec-Rychter M, Wasag B, Stul M, De Wever I, Van Oosterom A, Hagemeijer A, Sciot R.
Gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GISTs) negative for KIT (CD117 antigen) immunoreactivity.
J Pathol. 2004 Apr;202(4):430-8. PMID: 15095270

Debiec-Rychter M, Dumez H, Judson I, Wasag B, Verweij J, Brown M, Dimitrijevic S, Sciot R, Stul M, Vranck H, Scurr M, Hagemeijer A, van Glabbeke M, van Oosterom AT; EORTC Soft Tissue and Bone Sarcoma Group.
Use of c-KIT/PDGFRA mutational analysis to predict the clinical response to imatinib in patients with advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumours entered on phase I and II studies of the EORTC Soft Tissue and Bone Sarcoma Group.
Eur J Cancer. 2004 Mar;40(5):689-95. PMID: 15010069

Diment J, Tamborini E, Casali P, Gronchi A, Carney JA, Colecchia M.
Carney triad: case report and molecular analysis of gastric tumor.
Hum Pathol. 2005 Jan;36(1):112-6. PMID: 15712189

Duensing A, Joseph NE, Medeiros F, Smith F, Hornick JL, Heinrich MC, Corless CL, Demetri GD, Fletcher CD, Fletcher JA.
Protein Kinase C theta (PKCtheta) expression and constitutive activation in gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs).
Cancer Res. 2004 Aug 1;64(15):5127-31. PMID: 15289315

Duensing A, Medeiros F, McConarty B, Joseph NE, Panigrahy D, Singer S, Fletcher CD, Demetri GD, Fletcher JA.
Mechanisms of oncogenic KIT signal transduction in primary gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs).
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Durham MM, Gow KW, Shehata BM, Katzenstein HM, Lorenzo RL, Ricketts RR.
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Emile JF, Theou N, Tabone S, Cortez A, Terrier P, Chaumette MT, Julie C, Bertheau P, Lavergne-Slove A, Donadieu J, Barrier A, Le Cesne A, Debuire B,
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Clinicopathologic, phenotypic, and genotypic characteristics of gastrointestinal mesenchymal tumors.
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Fletcher CD, Berman JJ, Corless C, Gorstein F, Lasota J, Longley BJ, Miettinen M, O’Leary TJ, Remotti H, Rubin BP, Shmookler B, Sobin LH, Weiss SW.
Diagnosis of gastrointestinal stromal tumors: A consensus approach.
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Fuller CE, Williams GT.
Gastrointestinal manifestations of type 1 neurofibromatosis (von Recklinghausen’s disease).
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Geramizadeh B, Bahador A, Ganjei-Azar P, Asadi A.
Neonatal gastrointestinal stromal tumor. Report of a case and review of literature.
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Ghrist TD.
Gastrointestinal involvement in neurofibromatosis.
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Giuly JA, Picand R, Giuly D, Monges B, Nguyen-Cat R.
Von Recklinghausen disease and gastrointestinal stromal tumors.
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Handra-Luca A, Flejou JF, Molas G, Sauvanet A, Belghiti J, Degott C, Terris B.
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Hartmann K, Wardelmann E, Ma Y, Merkelbach-Bruse S, Preussner LM, Woolery C, Baldus SE, Heinicke T, Thiele J, Buettner R, Longley BJ.
Novel germline mutation of KIT associated with familial gastrointestinal stromal tumors and mastocytosis.
Gastroenterology. 2005 Sep;129(3):1042-6.
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Hasegawa T, Matsuno Y, Shimoda T, Hirohashi S.
Gastrointestinal stromal tumor: consistent CD117 immunostaining for diagnosis, and prognostic classification based on tumor size and MIB-1 grade.
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Heinrich MC, Corless CL.
Gastric GI stromal tumors (GISTs): the role of surgery in the era of targeted therapy.
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Heinrich MC, Corless CL, Demetri GD, Blanke CD, von Mehren M, Joensuu H, McGreevey LS, Chen CJ, Van den Abbeele AD, Druker BJ, Kiese B, Eisenberg B, Roberts PJ, Singer S, Fletcher CD, Silberman S, Dimitrijevic S, Fletcher JA.
Kinase mutations and imatinib response in patients with metastatic gastrointestinal stromal tumor.
J Clin Oncol. 2003 Dec 1;21(23):4342-9. PMID: 14645423

Heinrich MC, Corless CL, Duensing A, McGreevey L, Chen CJ, Joseph N, Singer S, Griffith DJ, Haley A, Town A, Demetri GD, Fletcher CD, Fletcher JA.
PDGFRA activating mutations in gastrointestinal stromal tumors.
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Hirota S, Ohashi A, Nishida T, Isozaki K, Kinoshita K, Shinomura Y, Kitamura Y.
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Hirota S, Okazaki T, Kitamura Y, O’Brien P, Kapusta L, Dardick I.
Cause of familial and multiple gastrointestinal autonomic nerve tumors with hyperplasia of interstitial cells of Cajal is germline mutation of the c-kit gene.
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Hirota S, Isozaki K, Moriyama Y, Hashimoto K, Nishida T, Ishiguro S, Kawano K, Hanada M, Kurata A, Takeda M, Muhammad Tunio G, Matsuzawa Y, Kanakura Y,
Shinomura Y, Kitamura Y.
Gain-of-function mutations of c-kit in human gastrointestinal stromal tumors.
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Hornick JL, Fletcher CD.
Immunohistochemical staining for KIT (CD117) in soft tissue sarcomas is very limited in distribution.
Am J Clin Pathol. 2002 Feb;117(2):188-93. PMID: 11865845

Hornick JL, Fletcher CD.
Validating immunohistochemical staining for KIT (CD117).
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Hornick JL, Fletcher CD.
The significance of KIT (CD117) in gastrointestinal stromal tumors.
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Huss S, Künstlinger H, Wardelmann E, Kleine MA, Binot E, Merkelbach-Bruse S, Rüdiger T, Mittler J, Hartmann W, Büttner R, Schildhaus HU.
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Igwilo OC, Byrne MP, Nguyen KD, Atkinson J.
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Irving JA, Lerwill MF, Young RH.
Gastrointestinal stromal tumors metastatic to the ovary: a report of five cases.
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Isozaki K, Terris B, Belghiti J, Schiffmann S, Hirota S, Vanderwinden JM.
Germline-activating mutation in the kinase domain of KIT gene in familial gastrointestinal stromal tumors.
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Kang DY, Park CK, Choi JS, Jin SY, Kim HJ, Joo M, Kang MS, Moon WS, Yun KJ, Yu ES, Kang H, Kim KM.
Multiple gastrointestinal stromal tumors: Clinicopathologic and genetic analysis of 12 patients.
Am J Surg Pathol. 2007 Feb;31(2):224-32. PMID: 17255767

Kerr JZ, Hicks MJ, Nuchtern JG, Saldivar V, Heim-Hall J, Shah S, Kelly DR, Cain WS, Chintagumpala MM.
Gastrointestinal autonomic nerve tumors in the pediatric population: a report of four cases and a review of the literature.
Cancer. 1999 Jan 1;85(1):220-30. PMID: 9921996

Kindblom LG, Remotti HE, Aldenborg F, Meis-Kindblom JM.
Gastrointestinal pacemaker cell tumor (GIPACT): gastrointestinal stromal tumors show phenotypic characteristics of the interstitial cells of Cajal.
Am J Pathol. 1998 May;152(5):1259-69. PMID: 9588894

Kim KM, Kang DW, Moon WS, Park JB, Park CK, Sohn JH, Jeong JS, Cho MY, Jin SY, Choi JS, Kang DY.
PKC theta expression in gastrointestinal stromal tumor.
Mod Pathol. 2006 Aug 4; [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 16892012

Kitamura Y, Hirotab S.
Kit as a human oncogenic tyrosine kinase.
Cell Mol Life Sci. 2004 Dec;61(23):2924-31. PMID: 15583854

Knop S, Schupp M, Wardelmann E, Stueker D, Horger MS, Kanz L, Einsele H, Kroeber SM.
A new case of Carney triad: gastrointestinal stromal tumours and leiomyoma of the oesophagus do not show activating mutations of KIT and platelet-derived growth factor receptor {alpha}.
J Clin Pathol. 2006 Oct;59(10):1097-9. PMID: 17021135

Lasota J, Miettinen M.
A New Familial GIST Identified.
Am J Surg Pathol 2006; 30(10): 1342. PMID 1700171

Lasota J, Wozniak A, Kopczynski J, Dansonka-Mieszkowska A, Wasag B, Mitsuhashi T, Sarlomo-Rikala M, Lee JR, Schneider-Stock R, Stachura J, Limon J,
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Loss of heterozygosity on chromosome 22q in gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs): a study on 50 cases.
Lab Invest. 2005 Feb;85(2):237-47. PMID: 15580284

Lasota J, Kopczynski J, Sarlomo-Rikala M, Schneider-Stock R, Stachura T, Kordek R, Michal M, Boltze C, Roessner A, Stachura J, Miettinen M.
KIT 1530ins6 mutation defines a subset of predominantly malignant gastrointestinal stromal tumors of intestinal origin.
Hum Pathol. 2003 Dec;34(12):1306-12. PMID: 14691917

Lee JL, Kim JY, Ryu MH, Kang HJ, Chang HM, Kim TW, Lee H, Park JH, Kim HC, Kim JS, Kang YK.
Response to imatinib in KIT- and PDGFRA-wild type gastrointestinal stromal associated with neurofibromatosis type 1.
Dig Dis Sci. 2006 Jun;51(6):1043-6. No abstract available. PMID: 16865565

Levy AD, Patel N, Abbott RM, Dow N, Miettinen M, Sobin LH.
Gastrointestinal stromal tumors in patients with neurofibromatosis: imaging features with clinicopathologic correlation.
AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2004 Dec;183(6):1629-36. PMID: 15547202

Li FP, Fletcher JA, Heinrich MC, Garber JE, Sallan SE, Curiel-Lewandrowski C, Duensing A, van de Rijn M, Schnipper LE, Demetri GD.
Familial gastrointestinal stromal tumor syndrome: phenotypic and molecular features in a kindred.
J Clin Oncol. 2005 Apr 20;23(12):2735-43. PMID: 15837988

Li P, Wei J, West AB, Perle M, Greco MA, Yang GC.
Epithelioid gastrointestinal stromal tumor of the stomach with liver metastases in a 12-year-old girl: aspiration cytology and molecular study.
Pediatr Dev Pathol. 2002 Jul-Aug;5(4):386-94.
PMID: 12198577

Lux ML, Rubin BP, Biase TL, Chen CJ, Maclure T, Demetri G, Xiao S, Singer S, Fletcher CD, Fletcher JA.
KIT extracellular and kinase domain mutations in gastrointestinal stromal tumors.
Am J Pathol. 2000 Mar;156(3):791-5. PMID: 10702394

Maertens O, Prenen H, Debiec-Rychter M, Wozniak A, Sciot R, Pauwels P, De Wever I, Vermeesch JR, de Raedt T, De Paepe A, Speleman F, van Oosterom A, Messiaen L, Legius E.
Molecular pathogenesis of multiple gastrointestinal stromal tumors in NF1 patients.
Hum Mol Genet. 2006 Mar 15;15(6):1015-23. PMID: 16461335

Martin J, Poveda A, Llombart-Bosch A, Ramos R, Lopez-Guerrero JA, Garcia del Muro J, Maurel J, Calabuig S, Gutierrez A, Gonzalez de Sande JL, Martinez J, De Juan A, Lainez N, Losa F, Alija V, Escudero P, Casado A, Garcia P, Blanco R, Buesa JM; Spanish Group for Sarcoma Research.
Deletions affecting codons 557-558 of the c-KIT gene indicate a poor prognosis in patients with completely resected gastrointestinal stromal tumors: a study by the Spanish Group for Sarcoma Research (GEIS).
J Clin Oncol. 2005 Sep 1;23(25):6190-8. PMID: 16135486

Medeiros F, Corless CL, Duensing A, Hornick JL, Oliveira AM, Heinrich MC, Fletcher JA, Fletcher CD.
KIT-negative gastrointestinal stromal tumors: proof of concept and therapeutic implications.
Am J Surg Pathol. 2004 Jul;28(7):889-94. PMID: 15223958

Miettinen M, Lasota J.
KIT (CD117): a review on expression in normal and neoplastic tissues, and mutations and their clinicopathologic correlation.
Appl Immunohistochem Mol Morphol. 2005 Sep;13(3):205-20. PMID: 16082245

Miettinen M, El-Rifai W, H L Sobin L, Lasota J.
Evaluation of malignancy and prognosis of gastrointestinal stromal tumors: a review.
Hum Pathol. 2002 May;33(5):478-83. PMID: 12094372

Miettinen M, Sobin LH, Sarlomo-Rikala M.
Immunohistochemical spectrum of GISTs at different sites and their differential diagnosis with a reference to CD117 (KIT).
Mod Pathol. 2000 Oct;13(10):1134-42. PMID: 11048809

Miettinen M, Sobin LH, Lasota J.
Gastrointestinal stromal tumors of the stomach: a clinicopathologic,immunohistochemical, and molecular genetic study of 1765 cases with long-term follow-up.
Am J Surg Pathol. 2005 Jan;29(1):52-68. PMID: 15613856

Miettinen M, Kopczynski J, Makhlouf HR, Sarlomo-Rikala M, Gyorffy H, Burke A, Sobin LH, Lasota J.
Gastrointestinal stromal tumors, intramural leiomyomas, and leiomyosarcomas in the duodenum: a clinicopathologic, immunohistochemical, and molecular genetic study of 167 cases.
Am J Surg Pathol. 2003 May;27(5):625-41. PMID: 12717247

Miettinen M, Sobin LH.
Gastrointestinal stromal tumors in the appendix: a clinicopathologic and immunohistochemical study of four cases.
Am J Surg Pathol. 2001 Nov;25(11):1433-7. PMID: 11684962

Miettinen M, Furlong M, Sarlomo-Rikala M, Burke A, Sobin LH, Lasota J.
Gastrointestinal stromal tumors, intramural leiomyomas, and leiomyosarcomas in the rectum and anus: a clinicopathologic, immunohistochemical, and molecular genetic study of 144 cases.
Am J Surg Pathol. 2001 Sep;25(9):1121-33. PMID: 11688571

Miettinen M, Sarlomo-Rikala M, Sobin LH, Lasota J.
Esophageal stromal tumors: a clinicopathologic, immunohistochemical, and molecular genetic study of 17 cases and comparison with esophageal leiomyomas and leiomyosarcomas.
Am J Surg Pathol. 2000 Feb;24(2):211-22. PMID: 10680889

Miettinen M, Monihan JM, Sarlomo-Rikala M, Kovatich AJ, Carr NJ, Emory TS, Sobin LH.
Gastrointestinal stromal tumors/smooth muscle tumors (GISTs) primary in the omentum and mesentery: clinicopathologic and immunohistochemical study of 26 cases.
Am J Surg Pathol. 1999 Sep;23(9):1109-18. PMID: 10478672

Motegi A, Sakurai S, Nakayama H, Sano T, Oyama T, Nakajima T.
PKC theta, a novel immunohistochemical marker for gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST), especially useful for identifying KIT-negative tumors.
Pathol Int. 2005 Mar;55(3):106-12. PMID: 15743318

Nakamura N, Yamamoto H, Yao T, Oda Y, Nishiyama K, Imamura M, Yamada T, Nawata H, Tsuneyoshi M.
Prognostic significance of expressions of cell-cycle regulatory proteins in gastrointestinal stromal tumor and the relevance of the risk grade.
Hum Pathol. 2005 Jul;36(7):828-37. PMID: 16084954

Nishida T, Hirota S, Taniguchi M, Hashimoto K, Isozaki K, Nakamura H, Kanakura Y, Tanaka T, Takabayashi A, Matsuda H, Kitamura Y.
Familial gastrointestinal stromal tumours with germline mutation of the KIT gene.
Nat Genet. 1998 Aug;19(4):323-4. PMID: 9697690

O’Brien P, Kapusta L, Dardick I, Axler J, Gnidec A.
Multiple familial gastrointestinal autonomic nerve tumors and small intestinal neuronal dysplasia.
Am J Surg Pathol. 1999 Feb;23(2):198-204. PMID: 9989847

Orosz Z, Tornoczky T, Sapi Z.
Gastrointestinal stromal tumors: a clinicopathologic and immunohistochemical study of 136 cases.
Pathol Oncol Res. 2005;11(1):11-21. PMID: 15800677

Parfitt JR, Streutker CJ, Riddell RH, Driman DK.
Gastrointestinal stromal tumors: A contemporary review.
Pathol Res Pract. 2006;202(12):837-47. Epub 2006 Oct 24. PMID: 17064855

Pauls K, Merkelbach-Bruse S, Thal D, Buttner R, Wardelmann E.
PDGFRalpha- and c-kit-mutated gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GISTs) are characterized by distinctive histological and immunohistochemical features.
Histopathology. 2005 Feb;46(2):166-75. PMID: 15693889

Pauwels P, Debiec-Rychter M, Stul M, De Wever I, Van Oosterom AT, Sciot R.
Changing phenotype of gastrointestinal stromal tumours under imatinib mesylate treatment: a potential diagnostic pitfall.
Histopathology. 2005 Jul;47(1):41-7. PMID: 15982322

Penzel R, Aulmann S, Moock M, Schwarzbach M, Rieker RJ, Mechtersheimer G.
The location of KIT and PDGFRA gene mutations in gastrointestinal stromal tumours is site and phenotype associated.
J Clin Pathol. 2005 Jun;58(6):634-9. PMID: 15917417

Prakash S, Sarran L, Socci N, DeMatteo RP, Eisenstat J, Greco AM, Maki RG, Wexler LH, LaQuaglia MP, Besmer P, Antonescu CR.
Gastrointestinal stromal tumors in children and young adults: a clinicopathologic, molecular, and genomic study of 15 cases and review of the literature.
J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2005 Apr;27(4):179-87. PMID: 15838387

Price VE, Zielenska M, Chilton-MacNeill S, Smith CR, Pappo AS.
Clinical and molecular characteristics of pediatric gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs).
Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2005 Jul;45(1):20-4. PMID: 15795882

Reith JD, Goldblum JR, Lyles RH, Weiss SW.
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