Genetics of small round cell tumors of children

Annals of Saudi Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 311-317

  Akhtar, Mohammed ^a   Iqbal, M Anwar ^a  

^a KING FAISAL SPECIALIST HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN P53;

CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CYTOGENETICS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EWING SARCOMA; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOMA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEPHROBLASTOMA; NEUROBLASTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTO ONCOGENE; REVIEW; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SMALL CELL SARCOMA; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

EID: 0032461560     PISSN: 02564947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5144/0256-4947.1998.311     Document Type: Review

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