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L Basterretxea Badiola1, S Arévalo Lobera, E Zapata Morcillo

  • 1Servicio de Oncología Médica, Hospital Donostia, Po. Dr Beguiristain s/n, 20014 San Sebastián, Guipúzcoa, Spain. lbasterretxea@chdo.osakidetza.net

Gastroenterologia Y Hepatologia
|October 6, 2006
PubMed

Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) appear in the abdominal cavity in less than 5% of patients. We present two cases of extraintestinal GIST attended in our service and treated with imatinib mesylate. We review the current treatment of these neoplasms with targeted therapies.

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