Olfactory neuroblastoma is not related to the Ewing family of tumors: Absence of EWS/FLI1 gene fusion and MIC2 expression

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 391-398

  Argani, Pedram ^a   Perez Ordoñez, Bayardo ^a   Xiao, Hong ^a   Caruana, Salvatore M ^a   Huvos, Andrew G ^a   Ladanyi, Marc ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Archival material; Chromosomal translocation; Esthesioneuroblastoma; Polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

CHROMOGRANIN; NEURON SPECIFIC ENOLASE; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHIMERA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTOGENETICS; EWING SARCOMA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; MALE; NEUROBLASTOMA; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGENS, CD; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROBLASTOMA; OLFACTORY NERVE; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, FUSION; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RNA, NEOPLASM; SARCOMA, EWING'S; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0031969525     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000478-199804000-00002     Document Type: Article

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