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Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors: A Clinicopathologic And Risk Stratification Study Of 255 Cases From Pakistan And Review Of Literature, Nasir Ud Din, Zubair Ahmad, Huma Arshad, Romana Idrees, Naila Kayani
Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors: A Clinicopathologic And Risk Stratification Study Of 255 Cases From Pakistan And Review Of Literature, Nasir Ud Din, Zubair Ahmad, Huma Arshad, Romana Idrees, Naila Kayani
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Purpose:
To describe the clinicopathological features of gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) diagnosed in our section and to perform risk stratification of our cases by assigning them to specific risk categories and groups for disease progression based on proposals by Fletcher et al and Miettinen and Lasota.
Material and Results:
We retrieved 255 cases of GIST diagnosed between 2003 and 2014. Over 59% were male. The age range was 16 to 83 years with a mean of 51 years. Over 70% occurred between 40 and 70 years of age. Average diameter of tumors was 10 cms. The stomach was the most …