Clinicopathological and genetic characteristics of mucinous carcinomas in the colorectum

International Journal of Oncology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1057-1061

  Zhang, Hong ^a   Evertsson, Sofia ^a   Sun, Xiao Feng ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Clinicopathology; Genetic alterations; Mucinous colorectal carcinoma

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; CYCLINE; DCC PROTEIN, HUMAN; DNA; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN P53; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN;

AGE; AGED; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CANCER STAGING; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; COLLOID CARCINOMA; COLORECTAL TUMOR; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONCOGENE RAS; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLOIDY; PROTO ONCOGENE; SEX DIFFERENCE; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ADENOCARCINOMA, MUCINOUS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APOPTOSIS; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENES, ERBB-2; GENES, P53; GENES, RAS; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PLOIDIES; PROLIFERATING CELL NUCLEAR ANTIGEN; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; S PHASE; SEX FACTORS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 0033141887     PISSN: 10196439     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/ijo.14.6.1057     Document Type: Article

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