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Gastroenterology Research and Practice
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 139083, 6 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/139083
Research Article

Fine-Needle Aspiration Biopsy and Endoscopic Ultrasound for Pretreatment Pathological Diagnosis of Gastric Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors

Hiroaki Ito,1 Haruhiro Inoue,1 Shomei Ryozawa,1 Haruo Ikeda,1 Noriko Odaka,1 Nikolas Eleftheriadis,1 Roberta Maselli,1 Norimasa Sando,1 Satoshi Kimura,2 and Shin-ei Kudo1

1Digestive Disease Center, Showa University Northern Yokohama Hospital, 35-1 Chigasakichuo, Tsuzuki-ku, Yokohama 224-8503, Japan
2Central Clinical Laboratory and Department of Laboratory Medicine, Showa University Northern Yokohama Hospital, 35-1 Chigasakichuo, Tsuzuki-ku, Yokohama 224-8503, Japan

Received 7 June 2012; Accepted 20 August 2012

Academic Editor: Massimo Raimondo

Copyright © 2012 Hiroaki Ito et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

How to Cite this Article

Hiroaki Ito, Haruhiro Inoue, Shomei Ryozawa, et al., “Fine-Needle Aspiration Biopsy and Endoscopic Ultrasound for Pretreatment Pathological Diagnosis of Gastric Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors,” Gastroenterology Research and Practice, vol. 2012, Article ID 139083, 6 pages, 2012. doi:10.1155/2012/139083