Pro-opiomelanocortin expression in a metastatic breast carcinoma with ectopic ACTH secretion

Breast Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 350-354

  Pelte, Marie Françoise ^a   Schwaller, Jurg ^a   Cerrato, Christelle ^a   Meier, Christoph A ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

ACTH; Breast carcinoma; Cushing's syndrome; Molecular analysis; Neuroendocrine

Indexed keywords

CHROMOGRANIN A; CORTICOTROPIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BONE METASTASIS; BONE PAIN; BREAST CARCINOMA; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CUSHING SYNDROME; ECTOPIC CORTICOTROPIN PRODUCTION; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; METASTASIS; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME; PHENOTYPE; PROGNOSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ACTH SYNDROME, ECTOPIC; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ARRHYTHMIA; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BONE NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CUSHING SYNDROME; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 3142771996     PISSN: 1075122X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1075-122X.2004.21467.x     Document Type: Article

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