c-KIT codon 816 mutation in a recurrent and metastatic dysgerminoma of a 14-year-old girl: Case study

Virchows Archiv

Volumn 445, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 651-654

  Pauls, Katharina ^a,b   Wardelmann, Eva ^a   Merkelbach Bruse, Sabine ^a   Büttner, Reinhard ^a   Zhou, Hui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b Institut für Pathologie   (Germany)

Author keywords

c KIT mutation; Germ cells; Immunohistochemistry

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CODON; DYSGERMINOMA; EXON; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PATHOGENESIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; CODON; DYSGERMINOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MUTATION; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT;

EID: 12144258444     PISSN: 09456317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00428-004-1112-3     Document Type: Article

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