Clinicopathological significance of expression of c-kit protein in neuroendocrine lung carcinoma

National Medical Journal of China

Volumn 85, Issue 22, 2005, Pages 1526-1529

  Zhao, Po ^a   Hou, Ning ^a   Shao, Yun ^a   Li, Xiang Hong ^a  

^a CHINESE PLA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Biological markers; Immunohistochemistry; Lung neoplasms

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR MARKER; STEM CELL FACTOR;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CARCINOID; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LARGE CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG CARCINOGENESIS; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEX RATIO; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; TISSUE SECTION; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOID TUMOR; CARCINOMA, NEUROENDOCRINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 21244502922     PISSN: 03762491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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