Micropthalmia transcription factor: A new prognostic marker in intermediate-thickness cutaneous malignant melanoma

Cancer Research

Volumn 60, Issue 18, 2000, Pages 5012-5016

  Salti, G I ^a   Manougian, T ^a   Farolan, M ^a   Shilkaitis, A ^a   Majumdar, D ^a   Das Gupta, T K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROPHTHALMIA TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TUMOR MARKER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOCYTE; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0034665342     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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