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Malignant Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor
A gastrointestinal stromal tumor that is characterized by large size (diameter greater than 10 cm for gastric localization and greater than 5 cm for intestinal localization) or more than 5 mitotic figures per 50 high power fields. (NCI Thesaurus)
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