Low-level microsatellite instability colorectal carcinomas: Do they really belong to a "gray zone" between high-level microsatellite instability and microsatellite-stable cancers?

International Journal of Colorectal Disease

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 216-221

  Rudzki, Zbigniew ^a   Zazula, Monika ^a   Okoń, Krzysztof ^a   Stachura, Jerzy ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Colorectal carcinoma; Microsatellite instability; MSI L; Proliferation fraction

Indexed keywords

KI 67 ANTIGEN; PROTEIN P53;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER STAGING; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

EID: 0038480130     PISSN: 01791958     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00384-002-0460-1     Document Type: Article

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