A comprehensive study of nondysplastic and dysplastic serrated polyps of the vermiform appendix

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1742-1753

  Yantiss, Rhonda K ^a   Panczykowski, Andrea ^a   Misdraji, Joseph ^b   Odze, Robert D ^c   Rennert, Hanna ^a   Chen, Yao Tseng ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adenoma; BRAF; DNA hypermethylation; Hyperplastic polyp; KRAS; Microsatellite instability; Serrated polyp; Sessile serrated adenoma

Indexed keywords

B RAF KINASE; BETA CATENIN; K RAS PROTEIN; KI 67 ANTIGEN; METHYLATED DNA PROTEIN CYSTEINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN MLH1; PROTEIN MSH2; PROTEIN P53;

ADULT; AGED; APPENDIX; APPENDIX ADENOCARCINOMA; APPENDIX CARCINOMA; ARTICLE; COLON ADENOMA; COLON POLYP; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTADENOMA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOMATOUS POLYPS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPENDIX; BETA CATENIN; CECAL NEOPLASMS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; CYSTADENOMA, MUCINOUS; DNA MODIFICATION METHYLASES; DNA REPAIR ENZYMES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; KI-67 ANTIGEN; MALE; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MIDDLE AGED; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; MUTATION; MUTS HOMOLOG 2 PROTEIN; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS B-RAF; RAS PROTEINS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 37349110287     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAS.0b013e31806bee6d     Document Type: Article

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