Differential expression of the retinoblastoma gene family members in choroidal melanoma: Prognostic significance

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1455-1458

  Massaro Giordano, Mina ^a   Baldi, Gianluca ^b   De Luca, Antonio ^c   Baldi, Alfonso ^c,d   Giordano, Antonio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RETINOBLASTOMA PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHOROID MELANOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

CHOROID NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GROWTH INHIBITORS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROGNOSIS; PROTEINS; RETINOBLASTOMA PROTEIN; RETINOBLASTOMA-LIKE PROTEIN P107; RETINOBLASTOMA-LIKE PROTEIN P130; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0033055803     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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