Genetic Alterations in Goblet Cell Carcinoids of the Vermiform Appendix and Comparison with Gastrointestinal Carcinoid Tumors

Modern Pathology

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1189-1198

  Stancu, Mirela ^a   Wu, Tsung Teh ^a   Wallace, Charita ^a   Houlihan, Patrick S ^a   Hamilton, Stanley R ^a   Rashid, Asif ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Catenin; 11q; 16q; Appendix; DPC4; Goblet cell carcinoid; K ras; Loss of heterozygosity of 18q; p53

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; SMAD4 PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; APPENDIX TUMOR; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CARCINOID; CHROMOSOME 11Q; CHROMOSOME 16Q; CHROMOSOME 18Q; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GOBLET CELL; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; ONCOGENE K RAS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPENDICEAL NEOPLASMS; BETA CATENIN; CARCINOID TUMOR; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 11; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 16; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 18; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, NEOPLASM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; GENES, RAS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOSS OF HETEROZYGOSITY; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; SMAD4 PROTEIN; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

EID: 0346992284     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.MP.0000097362.10330.B1     Document Type: Article

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