Expression of androgen receptors in benign and malignant endometrial stromal neoplasms

Virchows Archiv

Volumn 444, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 410-414

  Moinfar, Farid ^a   Regitnig, Peter ^a   Tabrizi, Ali Dastranj ^a   Denk, Helmut ^a   Tavassoli, Fattaneh A ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Androgen receptor; Endometrial stromal tumors; Estrogen receptor; Immunohistochemistry; Progesterone receptor

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; FORMALDEHYDE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM SARCOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

CELL COUNT; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; SARCOMA, ENDOMETRIAL STROMAL; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 2542554959     PISSN: 09456317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00428-004-0981-9     Document Type: Article

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