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Surgical Technique and Difficult Situations from Chandrajit Raut

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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are the most common mesenchymal neoplasms of the gastrointestinal tract.

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  1. Eisenberg BL, Trent JC. Adjuvant and neoadjuvant imatinib therapy: current role in the management of gastrointestinal stromal tumors. Int J Cancer. 2011;129(11):2533–42.

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  1. Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA, 02115, USA

    Nicole J. Look Hong MD, MSc & Chandrajit P. Raut MD, MSc

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Correspondence to Nicole J. Look Hong MD, MSc .

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  1. General and Visceral Surgery, Klinikum Werra-Meissner, Teaching Hospital Eschwege, University of Goettingen, Eschwege, Germany

    Michael Korenkov

  2. Department of General, Visceral, Vascular and Pediatric Surgery, University Hospital, Julius-Maximilians-University, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

    Christoph-Thomas Germer

  3. Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, University Medicine of the Johannes, Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

    Hauke Lang

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Hong, N.J.L., Raut, C.P. (2017). Surgical Technique and Difficult Situations from Chandrajit Raut. In: Korenkov, M., Germer, CT., Lang, H. (eds) Gastrointestinal Operations and Technical Variations. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49878-1_16

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