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Primary Malignant Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor (GIST) of the Gallbladder: Report of a Case

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  1. Second Department of Surgery, Democritus University of Thrace, Medical School, 68100, Alexandroupolis, Greece

    Helen Bolanaki, Constantinos Simopoulos & Anastasios J. Karayiannakis

  2. First Department of Pathology, Medical School, University of Athens, 11527, Athens, Greece

    Ioanna Delladetsima & Amalia Kapranou

  3. Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging, Democritus University of Thrace, Medical School, 68100, Alexandroupolis, Greece

    Paraskevi Argyropoulou

  4. Department of Clinical Oncology, Democritus University of Thrace, Medical School, 68100, Alexandroupolis, Greece

    Stylianos Kakolyris

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Bolanaki, H., Delladetsima, I., Argyropoulou, P. et al. Primary Malignant Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor (GIST) of the Gallbladder: Report of a Case. J Gastrointest Canc 43 (Suppl 1), 151–155 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12029-011-9346-1

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