Familial Wilms' tumor: A descriptive study

Medical and Pediatric Oncology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 398-403

  Breslow, Norman E ^a   Olson, Jane ^b   Moksness, Jami ^c   Beckwith, J Bruce ^d   Grundy, Paul ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^d LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e CROSS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

age at diagnosis; bilateral Wilms' tumor; genomic imprinting; intralobar nephrogenic rests

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; FAMILIAL CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHROBLASTOMA; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE; SIBLING; UROGENITAL TRACT MALFORMATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENES, WILMS TUMOR; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; INFANT; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; REGISTRIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WILMS TUMOR; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0029796609     PISSN: 00981532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-911X(199611)27:5<398::AID-MPO2>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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