Laterally spreading tumour in which interstitial deletion of β-catenin exon 3 was detected [6]

Gut

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1504-1505

  Nosho, K ^a   Yamamoto, H ^a   Mikami, M ^a   Takahashi, T ^a   Adachi, Y ^a   Endo, T ^a   Hirata, K ^a   Imai, K ^a   Shinomura, Y ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; PROTEIN P53;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; CARCINOGENESIS; CASE REPORT; COLON TUMOR; COLONOSCOPY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LETTER; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MISMATCH REPAIR; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCOGENE K RAS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR GROWTH;

ADENOCARCINOMA; BETA CATENIN; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS;

EID: 25444521811     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.2005.075184     Document Type: Letter

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