Annals of Diagnostic Pathology
Volume 11, Issue 1 , Pages 27-33 , February 2007

Diagnostic morphological features of PDGFRA-mutated gastrointestinal stromal tumors: molecular genetic and histologic analysis of 60 cases of gastric gastrointestinal stromal tumors

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doi: 10.1016/j.anndiagpath.2006.10.002

Annals of Diagnostic Pathology
Volume 11, Issue 1 , Pages 27-33 , February 2007

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