Resection of residual disease in patient
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Sebastian Bauer; Jörg Thomas Hartmann; Maike de Wit; Hauke Lang; Florian Grabell
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Article
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2005
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John Wiley and Sons
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French
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## Abstract Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) are the most common mesenchymal tumors of the gastrointestinal tract. Long‐term survival of patients with metastatic disease has only been observed in patients with completely resected disease. Recently, the tyrosine kinase inhibitor imatinib has b