Physical Address
304 North Cardinal St.
Dorchester Center, MA 02124
Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor
D efinition — Ovarian involvement is a rare metastatic presentation of this tumor.
Clinical Features
Epidemiology
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Most common mesenchymal tumor of the gastrointestinal tract.
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Driven by oncogenic KIT or PDGFRA mutations.
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Most common is an in-frame mutation of exon 11 in the c-KIT gene.
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