Cancer of the ampulla of Vater: Chromosome 17p allelic loss is associated with poor prognosis

Gut

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 842-848

  Scarpa, A ^a   Di Pace, C ^a   Talamini, G ^b   Falconi, M ^a   Lemoine, N R ^c   Iacono, C ^a   Achille, A ^a   Baron, A ^a   Zamboni, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allelotyping; Ampulla of Vater; Cancer; Loss of heterozygosity; Microsatellite instability; Microsatellites

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHROMOSOME 17P; CHROMOSOME 18Q; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; VATER PAPILLA CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AMPULLA OF VATER; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 17; COMMON BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENES, P53; HUMANS; LOSS OF HETEROZYGOSITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MUTATION; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0034029111     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.46.6.842     Document Type: Article

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