Craniopharyngiomas of adamantinomatous type harbor β-Catenin gene mutations

American Journal of Pathology

Volumn 161, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1997-2001

  Sekine, Shigeki ^a   Shibata, Tatsuhiro ^a   Kokubu, Akiko ^a   Morishita, Yukio ^b   Noguchi, Masayuki ^b   Nakanishi, Yukihiro ^a   Sakamoto, Michiie ^a   Hirohashi, Setsuo ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MESENCHYME; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PAPILLOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

EID: 0036898018     PISSN: 00029440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9440(10)64477-X     Document Type: Article

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