Frequent K-ras mutations in small bowel adenocarcinomas

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 115-118

  Sutter, Thomas ^b   Arber, Nadir ^b   Moss, Steven F ^b   Findling, Richard I ^b   Neugut, Alfred I ^b   Weinstein, I Bernard ^b   Holt, Peter R ^a  

^a ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Intestinal carcinogenesis; K ras mutations; Small bowel neoplasms

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MUTATION; ONCOGENE K RAS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL INTESTINE CANCER;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DUODENAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENES, RAS; HUMANS; ILEAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0030020388     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02208591     Document Type: Article

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