Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor with thrombocytosis and a unique chromosomal translocation with ALK rearrangement

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 130, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1042-1045

  Cole, Bonnie ^a,c   Zhou, Holly ^b   McAllister, Nancy ^a   Afify, Zeinab ^b   Coffin, Cheryl M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PRIMARY CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ABDOMINAL MASS; ALK GENE; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 1; CLINICAL FEATURE; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GIANT CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KARYOTYPE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLASMA CELL GRANULOMA; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCHOOL CHILD; THROMBOCYTOSIS;

ABDOMINAL NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 1; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 2; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GRANULOMA, PLASMA CELL; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; THROMBOCYTOSIS; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 33745965806     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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