RET/NTRK1 rearrangements in thyroid gland tumors of the papillary carcinoma family: Correlation with clinicopathological features

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 223-228

  Bongarzone, Italia ^a   Vigneri, Paolo ^a   Mariani, Luigi ^a   Collini, Paola ^a   Pilotti, Silvana ^a   Pierotti, Marco A ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TYROSINE KINASE RECEPTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONCOGENE; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RET; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTOR, TRKA; RECEPTORS, NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031931662     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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