Utilization of microdissection and the polymerase chain reaction for the diagnosis of adrenal cortical carcinoma in fine-needle aspiration cytology

Cancer

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 231-237

  Abati, Andrea ^a   Sanjuan, Xavier ^a   Wilder, AnnaMaria ^a   Marston Linehan, W ^a   Hewitt, Steven M ^a   Merino, Maria J ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

1p; Adrenal cortical carcinoma; Adrenal cortical lesions; Loss of heterozygosity; Microdissection; p53; von Hippel Lindau

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN P53;

ADRENAL CORTEX ADENOMA; ADRENAL CORTEX CARCINOMA; ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CHROMOSOME 17P; CHROMOSOME 1P; CHROMOSOME 3P; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; VON HIPPEL LINDAU DISEASE;

ADRENAL CORTEX NEOPLASMS; ADULT; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CARCINOMA; DISSECTION; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; HIPPEL-LINDAU DISEASE; HUMANS; LOSS OF HETEROZYGOSITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

EID: 0033603779     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19990825)87:4<231::AID-CNCR11>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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