Detection of t(11;22)(q24;q12) Translocation Breakpoint in Paraffin-embedded Tissue of the Ewing's Sarcoma Family by Nested Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction

Diagnostic Molecular Pathology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 107-113

  Adams, Volker ^a,c   Hany, M A ^b   Schmid, M ^a   Hassam, S ^a   Briner, J ^a   Niggli, F K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b University Children's Hospital   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG HEART CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Askin tumor; Ewing's sarcoma; Ewing's sarcoma family; EWS gene fli 1 gene t(11; 22)(q24; q12) translocation; Formalin fixed, paraffin embedded tissue; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; PARAFFIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 11; EWING SARCOMA; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TISSUE FIXATION;

ADULT; BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 11; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 22; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SARCOMA, EWING'S; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0029884631     PISSN: 10529551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019606-199606000-00005     Document Type: Article

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