Follicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma: Genome-wide appraisal of a controversial entity

Genes Chromosomes and Cancer

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 355-364

  Wreesmann, Volkert B ^a   Ghossein, Ronald A ^a   Hezel, Michael ^a   Banerjee, Debenranrath ^a   Shaha, Ashok R ^a   Tuttle, R Michael ^a   Shah, Jatin P ^a   Rao, Pulivarthi H ^b   Singh, Bhuvanesh ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA;

ADULT; ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROID TUMOR; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; TUMOR GROWTH;

ADULT; AGED; ANEUPLOIDY; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY, FOLLICULAR; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CYTOGENETIC ANALYSIS; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; THYROID NEOPLASMS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 3142615300     PISSN: 10452257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gcc.20049     Document Type: Article

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