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World J Gastroenterol. Nov 7, 2009; 15(41): 5224-5227
Published online Nov 7, 2009. doi: 10.3748/wjg.15.5224
Gastrointestinal stromal tumor causing small bowel intussusception in a patient with Crohn’s disease
George E Theodoropoulos, Dimitrios Linardoutsos, Dimitrios Tsamis, Paraskevas Stamopoulos, Dimitrios Giannopoulos, Flora Zagouri, Nikolaos V Michalopoulos
George E Theodoropoulos, Dimitrios Linardoutsos, Dimitrios Tsamis, Paraskevas Stamopoulos, Nikolaos V Michalopoulos, First Department of Propaedeutic Surgery, Hippocration University Hospital, Athens 11527, Greece
Dimitrios Giannopoulos, Department of Pathology, Hippocration University Hospital, Athens 11527, Greece
Flora Zagouri, Department of Clinical Therapeutics, Alexandra Hospital, Athens 11528, Greece
Author contributions: Theodoropoulos GE and Linardoutsos D wrote the paper; Tsamis D and Stamopoulos P collected and analyzed the data; Giannopoulos D performed the histopathology analysis; Michalopoulos NV and Zagouri F critically revised the paper for important intellectual content.
Correspondence to: Nikolaos V Michalopoulos, MD, PhD, First Department of Propaedeutic Surgery, Hippocration University Hospital, Athens 11527, Greece. nmichal@med.uoa.gr
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Received: July 11, 2009
Revised: September 18, 2009
Accepted: September 25, 2009
Published online: November 7, 2009
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