Ewing's sarcoma: Diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic implications of molecular abnormalities

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 96-102

  Burchill, S A ^a  

^a ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ANALYSIS; ASKIN TUMOR; CANCER CELL; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOGENESIS; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 22Q; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME HIGH RESOLUTION BANDING ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOLOGY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ETS GENE; EWING SARCOMA; EWS GENE; FEMUR; GENE; GENE FUSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; KARYOTYPE; METASTASIS; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; NEUROEPITHELIOMA; NONHUMAN; NUMERICAL CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; RNA SPLICING; SOFT TISSUE TUMOR; STRATIFICATION; STRUCTURAL CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BONE NEOPLASMS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 22; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS; SARCOMA, EWING'S; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0037313536     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.56.2.96     Document Type: Review

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