Diverse molecular pattern in a bihemispheric glioblastoma (butterfly glioma) in a 16-year-old boy

Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics

Volumn 177, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 125-130

  Zakrzewska, Magdalena ^a   Szybka, Malgorzata ^a   Zakrzewski, Krzysztof ^a   Biernat, Wojciech ^b   Kordek, Radzisław ^a   Rieske, Piotr ^a   Golanska, Ewa ^a   Zawlik, Izabela ^a   Piaskowski, Sylwester ^a   Liberski, Paweł P ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME 10P; CHROMOSOME 10Q; CHROMOSOME 13Q; CHROMOSOME 3P; CHROMOSOME 5Q; CHROMOSOME 9P; CHROMOSOME 9Q; CHROMOSOME ARM; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; EXON; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GLIOBLASTOMA; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SCREENING TEST; TISSUE SECTION; TUMOR GROWTH; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; LOSS OF HETEROZYGOSITY; MALE; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MDM2; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

EID: 34548489431     PISSN: 01654608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cancergencyto.2007.04.019     Document Type: Article

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