Gastric carcinosarcoma: a rare clinical entity looking for an identity

Ioannis Lazaridis1, Lazaros-Dimitrios Lazaridis, Elefherios Spartalis

  • 1Department of Surgery, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

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