RET expression in papillary thyroid cancer from patients irradiated in childhood for benign conditions

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 87, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 3941-3946

  Collins, B J ^a   Chiappetta, G ^b   Schneider, A B ^c   Santoro, M ^d   Pentimalli, F ^a   Fogelfeld, L ^b   Gierlowski, T ^c   Shore Freedman, E ^d   Jaffe, G ^a   Fusco, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^c MICHAEL REESE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN RET; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE;

ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INCIDENCE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RADIATION EXPOSURE; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA;

EID: 18544375569     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jcem.87.8.8748     Document Type: Article

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