Monoclonal origin of multicentric Kaposi's sarcoma lesions

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 336, Issue 14, 1997, Pages 988-993

  Rabkin, Charles S ^a   Janz, Siegfried ^a   Lash, Alex ^a   Coleman, Allen E ^a   Musaba, Elizabeth ^b   Liotta, Lance ^a   Biggar, Robert J ^a   Zhuang, Zhengping ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Zambia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KAPOSI SARCOMA; MOLECULAR CLONING; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ALLELES; CLONE CELLS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SARCOMA, KAPOSI;

EID: 0030955108     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199704033361403     Document Type: Article

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