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Editorial
. 2017 Nov 16:2:92.
doi: 10.21037/tgh.2017.11.05. eCollection 2017.

Therapeutic strategies for wild-type gastrointestinal stromal tumor: is it different from KIT or PDGFRA-mutated GISTs?

Toshirou Nishida  1
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Editorial

Therapeutic strategies for wild-type gastrointestinal stromal tumor: is it different from KIT or PDGFRA-mutated GISTs?

Toshirou Nishida. Transl Gastroenterol Hepatol. .
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Conflicts of Interest: T Nishida has received honoraria for speeches from Novartis, Bayer, Eisai, and Pfizer.

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Figure 1
Diagnostic flow of wild-type GISTs. The clinical and pathological diagnostic flow is shown. *, syndromic GISTs. GIST, gastrointestinal stromal tumor; SDH, succinate dehydrogenase; NF1-GIST, neurofibromatosis type I-associated GISTs.
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