A reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction assay in the diagnosis of soft tissue sarcomas

Cancer

Volumn 89, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1992-1998

  Naito, Noriko ^a   Kawai, Akira ^a   Ouchida, Mamoru ^a   Dan'ura, Tomoyuki ^a   Morimoto, Yuki ^a   Ozaki, Toshifumi ^a   Shimizu, Kenji ^a   Inoue, Hajime ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Fusion gene; Paraffin embedded tissue; Reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT PCR); Soft tissue sarcoma

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HYBRID PROTEIN; RNA;

ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; EMBEDDING; EWING SARCOMA; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIPOSARCOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOFT TISSUE CANCER; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA;

DNA PRIMERS; HUMANS; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, FUSION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEIN C-FLI-1; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, NEOPLASM; SARCOMA; SARCOMA, SYNOVIAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0034329285     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(20001101)89:9<1992::AID-CNCR16>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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