Cytogenetic analysis of 46 pleomorphic soft tissue sarcomas and correlation with morphologic and clinical features: A report of the champ study group

Genes Chromosomes and Cancer

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 16-25

  Mertens, Fredrik ^a   Fletcher, Christopher D M ^b   Dal Cin, Paola ^f   De Wever, Ivo ^f   Mandahl, Nils ^a   Mitelman, Felix ^a   Rosai, Juan ^c   Rydholm, Anders ^a   Sciot, Raf ^f   Tallini, Giovanni ^d   Van Den Berghe, Herman ^f   Vanni, Roberta ^e   Willén, Helena ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^f Lund University Hospital ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTOGENETICS; FEMALE; FIBROSARCOMA; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KARYOTYPE; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; MALE; MYOSARCOMA; MYXOMA; NERVE SHEATH TUMOR; OSTEOSARCOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; RING CHROMOSOME; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; SUPERNUMERARY CHROMOSOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LIPOSARCOMA; MALE; MESENCHYMOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MYOSARCOMA; MYXOSARCOMA; OSTEOSARCOMA; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031958592     PISSN: 10452257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2264(199805)22:1<16::AID-GCC3>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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