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Gastrointestinal stromal tumor: report of two unusual cases

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  1. Department of Pathology, Hospital Nossa Senhora das Graças, Curitiba, Brazil

    Mário Rodrigues Montemor Neto, Tiago Noguchi Machuca & Luiz Fernando Bleggi-Torres

  2. Department of General Surgery, Hospital Nossa Senhora das Graças, Curitiba, Brazil

    Renato Valmassoni Pinho

  3. Department of Oncological Surgery, Hospital Nossa Senhora das Graças, Curitiba, Brazil

    Lucas Dan Yuasa

  4. Serviço de Anatomia Patológica, Hospital de Clínicas/UFPR, Rua General Carneiro 181, 80060-900 , Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil

    Luiz Fernando Bleggi-Torres

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Neto, M.R.M., Machuca, T.N., Pinho, R.V. et al. Gastrointestinal stromal tumor: report of two unusual cases. Virchows Arch 444, 594–596 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00428-004-1009-1

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