A trichilemmal carcinoma arising from a proliferating trichilemmal cyst: The loss of the wild-type p53 is a critical event in malignant transformation

Human Pathology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 193-195

  Takata, Minoru ^a   Rehman, Ishtiaq ^b   Rees, Jonathan L ^b  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Loss of Heterozygosity; Microsatellites; p53; Skin appendage

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN P53;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME 17P; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; NONSENSE MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEBACEOUS CARCINOMA; SEBACEOUS CYST;

EID: 0031912250     PISSN: 00468177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0046-8177(98)90234-9     Document Type: Article

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