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Date:1/14/2009

lated causes. In comparison with patients with gastric GISTs, those with small bowel tumors had overall better outcomes, with no deaths or disease recurrence. Recurrent disease was seen in four patients with gastric tumors, and there was disease-specific mortality in two patients. There was no difference in overall survival between patients with small bowel and gastric tumors (89.5 percent versus 88.7 percent, respectively, p>0.165).

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