Correlation between clinicopathological features and karyotype in spindle cell sarcomas: A report of 130 cases from the CHAMP study group

American Journal of Pathology

Volumn 154, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1841-1847

  Fletcher, Christopher D M ^a   Cin, Paola Dal ^a,b   De Wever, Ivo ^b   Mandahl, Nils ^c   Mertens, Fredrik ^c   Mitelman, Felix ^c   Rosai, Juan ^d   Rydholm, Anders ^c   Sciot, Raf ^b   Tallini, Giovanni ^e   Van Den Berghe, Herman ^b   Vanni, Roberta ^f   Willén, Helena ^c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 18; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION X; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CORRELATION FUNCTION; FIBROMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KARYOTYPE; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINDLE CELL SARCOMA; SYNOVIAL SARCOMA;

EID: 0344573926     PISSN: 00029440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9440(10)65441-7     Document Type: Article

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