Primary Pericardial Synovial Sarcoma with Detection of the Chimeric Transcript SYT-SSX

Circulation Journal

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 330-332

  Oizumi, Satoshi ^a,c   Igarashi, Keiichi ^a   Takenaka, Takashi ^a   Yamashiro, Katsushige ^a   Hiraga, Hiroaki ^a   Fujino, Toyohiro ^b   Horimoto, Masashi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^b Hokkaido Ctrl Hosp Social Hlth I   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chimeric transcript; Primary pericardial tumor; Reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT PCR); Synovial sarcoma; SYT SSX

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHIMERA; FEMALE; HUMAN; PERICARDIAL DISEASE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYNOVIAL SARCOMA; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADULT; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 18; FEMALE; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, FUSION; PERICARDIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SARCOMA, SYNOVIAL; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0032943799     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/jcj.63.330     Document Type: Article

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