Distinct pattern of ret oncogene rearrangements in morphological variants of radiation-induced and sporadic thyroid papillary carcinomas in children

Cancer Research

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1690-1694

  Nikiforov, Yuri E ^a   Rowland, Jon M ^b   Bove, Kevin E ^c   Monforte Munoz, Hector ^b   Fagin, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES   (United States)

^c CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER GENETICS; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; ONCOGENE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA;

ACCIDENTS, RADIATION; ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA, NEOPLASM; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RET; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; THYROID NEOPLASMS; UKRAINE;

EID: 0030941779     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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