High prevalence of c-RET expression in papillary thyroid carcinomas from the Korean population

Thyroid

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 259-266

  Lee, Sihoon ^a   Hong, Soon Won ^a   Moon, Woo Chul ^b   Oh, Myung Ryurl ^b   Lee, Jin Kyung ^b   Ahn, Chul Woo ^a   Cha, Bong Soo ^a   Kim, Kyung Rae ^a   Lee, Hyun Chul ^a   Lim, Sung Kil ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b GoodGene Inc   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN RET;

ADENOMA; ANAPLASTIC THYROID CARCINOMA; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CHROMOSOME 10; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCRINE TUMOR; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KOREA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA TYPE 2; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTO ONCOGENE; PROTO ONCOGENE C RET; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID FOLLICULAR ADENOMA; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID HYPERPLASIA; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA;

ADENOCARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; DNA PRIMERS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KOREA; PREVALENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 20144363836     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.2005.15.259     Document Type: Article

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