RET/PTC rearrangements in thyroid nodules: Studies in irradiated and not irradiated, malignant and benign thyroid lesions in children and adults

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 86, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 3211-3216

  Elisei, Rossella ^a   Romei, Cristina ^a   Vorontsova, Tatiana ^b   Cosci, Barbara ^a   Veremeychik, Vera ^b   Kuchinskaya, Elvira ^b   Basolo, Fulvio ^a   Demidchik, Eugeni P ^b   Miccoli, Paolo ^a   Pinchera, Aldo ^a   Pacini, Furio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b Belorussia State Medical University   (Belarus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENOTYPE; HEREDITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONCOGENE RET; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOTHERAPY; THYROID NODULE; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION;

ACCIDENTS, RADIATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BYELARUS; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; CHILD; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; ONCOGENE PROTEINS; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, FUSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RET; RADIOTHERAPY; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RNA; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; UKRAINE;

EID: 17844407157     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.86.7.3211     Document Type: Article

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