Sporadic type composite pheochromocytoma with neuroblastoma: Clinicomorphologic, DNA content, and ret gene analysis

Endocrine Pathology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 343-350

  Candanedo Gonzalez, Fernando A ^a   Alvarado Cabrero, Isabel ^a   Gamboa Dominguez, Armando ^a   Cerbulo Vazquez, Arturo ^a   Lopez Romero, Ricardo ^a   Bornstein Quevedo, Leticia ^a   Salcedo Vargas, Mauricio ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE ONCOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Adrenal medulla; Composite pheochromocytoma; DNA ploidy; Neuroblastoma; Ret proto oncogene

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN RET;

ADRENAL MEDULLA; ADRENAL TUMOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CASE REPORT; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DNA CONTENT; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEUROBLASTOMA; ONCOGENE; PHENOTYPE; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PLOIDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTO ONCOGENE;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; AGED; DIPLOIDY; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, NEOPLASM; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; NEUROBLASTOMA; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RET; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0035691238     PISSN: 10463976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1385/EP:12:3:343     Document Type: Article

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