Synchronous endometrioid carcinomas of the uterine corpus and ovary: Alterations in the β-catenin (CTNNB1) pathway are associated with independent primary tumors and favorable prognosis

Human Pathology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 605-619

  Irving, Julie A ^a   Catasús, Lluis ^a   Gallardo, Alberto ^a   Bussaglia, Elena ^a   Romero, Marisa ^a,c   Matias Guiu, Xavier ^a,d   Prat, Jaime ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Catenin; Endometrial carcinoma; Microsatellite instability; Ovarian carcinoma; PTEN; Synchronous

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BETA CATENIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE;

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURGERY; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOME 10Q; CHROMOSOME 17P; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOMETRIOID CARCINOMA; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM HYPERPLASIA; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NEPHRECTOMY; OBSERVATION; ONCOGENE; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY CARCINOMA; OVARY METASTASIS; PERITONEUM METASTASIS; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; SIGMOIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERUS CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA CATENIN; CARCINOMA, ENDOMETRIOID; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOSS OF HETEROZYGOSITY; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; PROGNOSIS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 21544457787     PISSN: 00468177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humpath.2005.03.005     Document Type: Article

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