Uteri of women with endometrial carcinoma contain a histopathological spectrum of monoclonal putative precancers, some with microsatellite instability

Cancer Research

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1917-1921

  Jovanovic, Anna S ^a,b   Boynton, Kevin A ^a   Mutter, George L ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CYTOGENETICS; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; ENDOMETRIUM HYPERPLASIA; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYSTERECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRECANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; DNA, NEOPLASM; DNA, SATELLITE; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERPLASIA; HYSTERECTOMY; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; UTERINE DISEASES; UTERINE NEOPLASMS; UTERUS; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0029917793     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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