Epidermal growth factor receptor is not amplified in schwannomas

Annals of Diagnostic Pathology

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 326-329

  Prayson, Richard A ^a   Yoder, Brian J ^a   Barnett, Gene H ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidermal growth factor receptor; Fluorescence in situ hybridization; Immunohistochemistry; Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor; Schwannoma

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ARM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GOLGI STAIN; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEURILEMOMA; MITOGENESIS; NEURILEMOMA; NEUROFIBROMA; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; PERIPHERAL NERVE TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE SHEATH NEOPLASMS; NEURILEMMOMA; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR;

EID: 34548476964     PISSN: 10929134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anndiagpath.2006.09.007     Document Type: Article

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