Small cell carcinoma of the endometrium: Report of a case with analysis of Wnt/β-catenin pathway

Pathology Research and Practice

Volumn 199, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 551-558

  Meirmanov, Serik ^a   Nakashima, Masahiro ^a   Rogounovitch, Tatiana ^a   Fukuda, Eiichiro ^a   Nakayama, Toshiyuki ^a   Sato, Futaba ^b   Sekine, Ichiro ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b Department of Anesthesiology   (Japan)

Author keywords

APC; Cyclin D1; Endometrium; Immunohistochemistry; Small cell carcinoma; Wnt pathway; catenin

Indexed keywords

APC PROTEIN; BETA CATENIN; CYCLIN D1; WNT PROTEIN;

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; EXON; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; METASTASIS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMALL CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

EID: 0141446281     PISSN: 03440338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/0344-0338-00461     Document Type: Article

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