Cytogenetics and molecular genetics of childhood brain tumors

Neuro-Oncology

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 139-151

  Biegel, Jaclyn A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUMOR PROTEIN;

ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN TUMOR; CHILD; CHOROID PLEXUS TUMOR; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPENDYMOMA; FAMILIAL CANCER; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETICS; GERM CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; INFANT; KARYOTYPING; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MONOSOMY; MUTATION; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REVIEW; RHABDOID TUMOR; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOROID PLEXUS NEOPLASMS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; EPENDYMOMA; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GERMINOMA; HUMANS; INFANT; KARYOTYPING; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MONOSOMY; MUTATION; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES, HEREDITARY; NEUROECTODERMAL TUMORS, PRIMITIVE; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; RHABDOID TUMOR;

EID: 0033108219     PISSN: 15228517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/15228517-1-2-139     Document Type: Article

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