Expressions of wildtype-RET and RET/PTC rearrangements in sporadic adult papillary thyroid carcinoma and their clinicopathologic correlation

Chinese Journal of Pathology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 87-91

  Zhu, Xiao Li ^a   Zhou, Xiao Yan ^a   Zhang, Tai Ming ^a   Zhu, Xiong Zeng ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Carcinoma, papillary; Gene rearrangement; Oncogene proteins, fusion; Thyroid neoplasms

Indexed keywords

PARAFFIN; PROTEIN RET; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METASTASIS; ONCOGENE RET; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THYROID CARCINOMA; WILD TYPE;

ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, FUSION; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RET; RNA, MESSENGER; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33344464836     PISSN: 05295807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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