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2007 Program and Abstracts | 2007 Posters
Midkine As a Prognostic Marker for Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors Kai Bachmann*1,4, Jussuf T. Kaifi1, Henning C. Fiegel2, Kuniaki Aridome4, Paulus G. Schurr1, Uta Reichelt3, Keiko Ichihara-Tanaka5, Takashi Muramatsu5, Dietrich Kluth2, Tim Strate1, Jakob R. Izbicki1 1Department of General, Visceral and Thoracic surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; 2Department of Pediatric Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; 3Institute for Pathology, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; 4Department of Surgery, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan; 5Department of Health Science, Aichi Gakuin University, Aichi, Japan
Background: Midkine (MK), a heparin-binding growth factor, has an important role in cancer progression in different tumor types. The aim of this study was to determine MK expression in gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) that derive from the institial neuronal cells of Cajal in myenteric plexus of the intestine.
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