CD117 expression in diffuse large B-cell lymphomas: Fact or fiction?

Pathology International

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 716-723

  Vakiani, Efsevia ^a   Cattoretti, Giorgio ^a   Colovai, Adriana I ^a   Murty, Vundavalli V ^a   Alobeid, Bachir ^a   Bhagat, Govind ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

CD117; EBV; Immunohistochemistry; KIT; Lymphoma; Microarray; Plasmablastic lymphoma

Indexed keywords

STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; B CELL LYMPHOMA; BONE MARROW; CASE REPORT; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; NASOPHARYNX TUMOR; ONCOGENE; PHENOTYPE; PLASMA CELL DYSCRASIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH TUMOR; TISSUE MICROARRAY; TUMOR BIOPSY;

BONE NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOMA, B-CELL; LYMPHOMA, FOLLICULAR; LYMPHOMA, LARGE-CELL, DIFFUSE; LYMPHOMA, MANTLE-CELL; LYMPHOMA, SMALL LYMPHOCYTIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; SPLENIC NEOPLASMS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 28444470851     PISSN: 13205463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1827.2005.01893.x     Document Type: Article

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