Genomic allelotyping for distinction of recurrent and de novo hepatocellular carcinoma after orthotopic liver transplantation

Diagnostic Molecular Pathology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 34-38

  Altimari, Annalisa ^a   Gruppioni, Elisa ^a   Fiorentino, Michelangelo ^a   Petraroli, Rosella ^b   Pinna, Antonio Daniele ^c   Petropulacos, Kyriakoula ^d   Ridolfi, Lorenza ^e   Costa, Alessandro Nanni ^f   Grigioni, Walter Franco ^a,g   Grigioni, Antonia D'Errico ^a  

^a Ctro Riferimento Trapianti E   (Italy)

^b Applera Italia   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d Assessorato Alla San ' Regione E   (Italy)

^e Ctro Riferimento Trapianti E   (Italy)

^f Centro Nazionale Trapianti   (Italy)

^g Ctro Interdipartimentale Ric S   (Italy)

Author keywords

De novo tumors; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Liver transplantation; Recurrences

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIVER; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT;

ADULT; ALLELES; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 20044366541     PISSN: 10529551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.pas.0000143609.85487.36     Document Type: Article

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