Primary colonic malignant melanoma

Pathology International

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 744-748

  Mori, Daisuke ^a,b   Satoh, Toshimi ^a   Nakafusa, Yuji ^a   Tanaka, Masayuki ^a   Miyazaki, Kohji ^a   Tokunaga, Osamu ^a  

^a SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Saga Prefectural Hospital Kouseikan   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chimeric EWS ATF 1 fusion transcript; Colon; Malignant melanoma

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1; CD38 ANTIGEN; HYBRID PROTEIN; MELAN A; PROTEIN S 100; RNA BINDING PROTEIN EWS; VIMENTIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLEAR CELL SARCOMA; COLON; COLON CANCER; COLONOSCOPY; CYTOPLASM; DESCENDING COLON; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE TUMOR; MELANOMA; PRIMARY COLONIC MALIGNANT MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR NECROSIS; TUMOR VOLUME; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MELANOMA; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, FUSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 33750615132     PISSN: 13205463     EISSN: 14401827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1827.2006.02041.x     Document Type: Article

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