Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors with t(X;18). A pathologic and molecular genetic study

Modern Pathology

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1253-1263

  O'Sullivan, Maureen J ^a   Kyriakos, Michael ^a   Zhu, Xiaopei ^a   Wick, Mark R ^a,b   Swanson, Paul E ^a   Dehner, Louis P ^a   Humphrey, Paul A ^a   Pfeifer, John D ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromosomal translocation; Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor; Specificity; Synovial sarcoma; t(X; 18)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 10; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DNA SEQUENCE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NERVE SHEATH TUMOR; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; SPINDLE CELL CARCINOMA; SYNOVIAL SARCOMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 18; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE SHEATH NEOPLASMS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, NEOPLASM; SARCOMA, SYNOVIAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0033710678     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.3880230     Document Type: Article

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