GISTs — Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors

Section I. Clinical Pathology

1. Anatomic and Clinical Pathology
Annarosaria Chiara, Angelo Paolo Dei Tos

Section II. Imaging

2. Introduction
Elisabetta Lutio di Castelguidone

3. Conventional Radiography
Francesco La Seta, Teresa Maria Borino, Lorenzo Tesè, Luigi Carlo Cirillo, Filippo Barbiera

4. Endoscopy and Endoscopic Ultrasound in the Diagnosis and Staging of GISTs
Pietro Marone, Giovanni Battista Rossi, Mario Bellis, Alfonso Tempesta

5. Ultrasound, Color-Doppler Ultrasound and Contrast-enhanced Ultrasound of Primary GISTs and Liver Metastases
Orlando Catalano, Vincenza Granata

6. Computed Tomography
Elisabetta Lutio di Castelguidone, Sergio Venanzio Setola, Antonella Messina, Carlo Morosi, Maria Cristina Bellucci, Secondo Lastoria, Roberto Mizio

7. Magnetic Resonance
Antonella Messina, Gianpiero Cardone, Elisabetta Lutio di Castelguidone, Carlo Morosi, Antonella Petrillo, Daniele Vergnaghi

8. Contrast-enhanced PET/CT in the Follow-up of GISTs
Ennio Biscaldi, Arnoldo Piccardo, Gian Andrea Rollandi

Section III. Treatment

9. Medical Treatment
Elena Fumagalli, Gaetano Apice, Paolo Giovanni Casali

10. Surgical Treatment
Alessandro Gronchi, Marco Fiore, Raffaele Palaia

Section IV. Management

11. GIST Unit Network
Aldo Torreggiani, Stanislao Forte, Sergio Venanzio Setola

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