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The term gastrointestinal stromal tumors was initially coined as a purely descriptive term by Mazur and Clark in 1983 to define intra-abdominal tumors that were not carcinomas (i.e., nonepithelial tumors) and that also did not exhibit histologic features of smooth muscle or nerve cells.[1]