Clinical significance of E-cadherin as a prognostic marker in thyroid carcinomas

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 80, Issue 7, 1995, Pages 2168-2172

  Scheumman, Georg F W ^a   Hoang Vu, Cuong ^a   Cetin, Yalcin ^a   Gimm, Oliver ^a   Behrends, Jens ^a   von Wasielewski, Reinhard ^a   Georgii, Axel ^a   Birchmeier, Walter ^b   von Zur Mühlen, Walter ^a   Dralle, Henning ^a   Brabant, Georg ^a  

^a Department of Abdominal and Transplantation Surgery ^*  (Germany)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; UVOMORULIN;

ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL POLARITY; EPITHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; THYROID CARCINOMA; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADENOCARCINOMA, FOLLICULAR; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CADHERINS; CARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PROGNOSIS; RNA, MESSENGER; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0029060074     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 19457197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jcem.80.7.7608273     Document Type: Article

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