Spindle cell carcinoma of head and neck: An immunohistochemical and molecular approach to its pathogenesis

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 472-475

  Gupta, Ruchika ^a,b   Singh, Sompal ^b   Hedau, Suresh ^c   Nigam, Sonu ^b   Das, Bhudev C ^c   Singh, Ishwar ^b   Mandal, Ashish Kumar ^b  

^a Maulana Azad Medical College ^*  (India)

^b MAULANA AZAD MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^c INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND PREVENTIVE ONCOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIDIN; BIOTIN; CYTOKERATIN; PARAFFIN; SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; VIMENTIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; EXON; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ONCOGENE K RAS; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; SPINDLE CELL CARCINOMA;

ACTINS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; GENES, RAS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; KERATINS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VIMENTIN;

EID: 34249883955     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.2005.033589     Document Type: Article

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