Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Gastrointestinal stromal tumor | BioMed Central World Journal of Surgical Oncology Open Access Review Gastrointestinal stromal tumor Michael Stamatakos 1 Emmanouel Douzinas2 Charikleia Stefanaki1 Panagiotis Safioleas1 Electra Polyzou1 Georgia Levidou3 and Michael Safioleas1 Address 14th Department of Surgery University of Athens School of Medicine Attikon General Hospital Athens Greece 23rd Department of Critical Care Athens University Eugenidion Hospital Athens Greece and 3Department of Pathology School of Medicine University of Athens Greece Email Michael Stamatakos - stamatakosmih@ Emmanouel Douzinas - not@ Charikleia Stefanaki - not@ Panagiotis Safioleas - not@ Electra Polyzou - not@ Georgia Levidou - not@ Michael Safioleas - not@ Corresponding author Published I August 2009 Received 6 April 2009 World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2009 7 61 doi 1477-7819-7-61 Accepted 1 August 2009 This article is available from http content 7 1 61 2009 Stamatakos et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract__ Background GISTs are a subset of mesenchymal tumors and represent the most common mesenchymal neoplasms of GI tract. However GIST is a recently recognized tumor entity and the literature on these stromal tumors has rapidly expanded. Methods An extensive review of the literature was carried out in both online medical journals and through Athens University Medical library. An extensive literature search for papers published up to 2009 was performed using as key words GIST Cajal s cells treatment Imatinib KIT review of each study were conducted and data were abstracted. Results GIST has .
