A combined cytogenetic and molecular approach to diagnosis in a case of desmoplastic small round cell tumor with a complex translocation (11;22;21)

Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 19-25

  Roberts, Paul ^a   Burchill, Susan A ^a   Beddow, Rachel A ^a   Wheeldon, John ^a   Cullinane, Catherine ^a   Lewis, Ian J ^a  

^a ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CYTOGENETICS; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; GENE FUSION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SMALL CELL SARCOMA;

ABDOMINAL NEOPLASMS; ADOLESCENT; BASE SEQUENCE; BONE MARROW; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 11; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 21; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 22; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EXONS; GENES, WILMS TUMOR; HETEROGENEOUS-NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEIN EWS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC; WT1 PROTEINS;

EID: 0032907277     PISSN: 01654608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-4608(98)00103-4     Document Type: Article

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