A case of pancreatic adenocarcinoma with novel K-ras mutation and long term survival

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 97, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1852-1853

  Toyooka, Shinichi ^a,b   Tsukuda, Kazunori ^a,b   Mizuta, Minoru ^a,b   Soh, Junichi ^a,b   Shirakawa, Kazutoyo ^a,b   Shimizu, Kenji ^a,b   Shimizu, Nobuyoshi ^a,b  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Mitoyo General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASE REPORT; CODON; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; LETTER; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; ONCOGENE K RAS; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 0036311165     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9270(02)04227-2     Document Type: Letter

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