Aggressive fibromatosis (desmoid tumor) is a monoclonal disorder

Diagnostic Molecular Pathology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 98-101

  Alman, Benjamin A ^a   Pajerski, Mandy E ^b   Diaz Cano, Salvador ^b   Corboy, Kerry ^c   Wolfe, Hubert J ^b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggressive fibromatosis; Clonality; Desmoid; Polymerase chain reactions

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; DNA;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL CLONE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESMOID TUMOR; FEMALE; FIBROMATOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ARM; CLONE CELLS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; FIBROMATOSIS, AGGRESSIVE; HUMANS; LEG; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0031004283     PISSN: 10529551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019606-199704000-00005     Document Type: Article

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