Gene amplifications characterize acral melanoma and permit the detection of occult tumor cells in the surrounding skin

Cancer Research

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1968-1973

  Bastian, Boris C ^a,b   Kashani Sabet, Mohammed ^a   Hamm, Henning ^c   Godfrey, Tony ^a   Moore II, Dan H ^a   Bröcker, Eva B ^c   LeBoit, Philip E ^a,b   Pinkel, Dan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 11Q; CHROMOSOME 22Q; CHROMOSOME 5P; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MELANOCYTE; MELANOMA; OCCULT CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR VOLUME;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 11; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 22; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 5; DISEASE PROGRESSION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0034072726     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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