The spatial distribution of monosomy 3 and network vasculogenic mimicry patterns in uveal melanoma

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1918-1922

  Meir, Tal ^a   Zeschnigk, Michael ^b   Maßhöfer, Lars ^b   Pe'er, Jacob ^a   Chowers, Itay ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TYPE; CHROMOSOME 3; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LASER CAPTURE MICRODISSECTION; MALE; MONOSOMY; MONOSOMY 3; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; UVEA MELANOMA; AGED; GENETICS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PATHOLOGY; PERIODIC ACID SCHIFF STAIN; UVEA TUMOR; VASCULARIZATION;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 3; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MELANOMA; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; MONOSOMY; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PERIODIC ACID-SCHIFF REACTION; UVEAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34250209875     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.06-1308     Document Type: Article

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