K-ras mutations in mucinous ovarian tumors: A clinicopathologic and molecular study of 95 cases

Cancer

Volumn 79, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1581-1586

  Cuatrecasas, Miriam ^a   Villanueva, Alberto ^a   Matias Guiu, Xavier ^a   Prat, Jaime ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

Author keywords

c K ras; genes; mucinous tumors; oncogenes; ovary

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTADENOCARCINOMA; CYSTADENOMA; EMBEDDING; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ONCOGENE K RAS; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TISSUE FIXATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CODON; CYSTADENOCARCINOMA, MUCINOUS; CYSTADENOMA, MUCINOUS; FEMALE; GENES, RAS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; POINT MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH;

EID: 0030964881     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19970415)79:8<1581::AID-CNCR21>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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