Microsatellite-unstable mucinous colorectal carcinoma occurring in the elderly: Comparison with medullary type poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma

Pathology International

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 205-212

  Arai, Tomio ^a   Kasahara, Ichiro ^a   Sawabe, Motoji ^a   Kanazawa, Nobuo ^a   Kuroiwa, Kojiro ^a   Honma, Naoko ^b   Aida, Junko ^b   Takubo, Kaiyo ^b  

^a Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Elderly; hMLH1; Large intestine; Microsatellite instability; Mucinous carcinoma

Indexed keywords

MUCIN 2; MUCIN 5AC; PROTEIN MLH1;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PATIENT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATORY CELL; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MUCINOUS CARCINOMA; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOCARCINOMA, MUCINOUS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CARRIER PROTEINS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MUCINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS;

EID: 33847105603     PISSN: 13205463     EISSN: 14401827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1827.2007.02082.x     Document Type: Article

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