Metastatic basal cell carcinoma exhibits reduced actin expression

Modern Pathology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 540-543

  Uzquiano, Maria C ^a   Prieto, Victor G ^a   Nash, Jason W ^a   Ivan, Doina S ^a   Gong, Yun ^a   Lazar, Alexander J F ^a   Diwan, A Hafeez ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Actin; Basal cell carcinoma; Metastasis

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; CALPONIN; MYOSIN; UVOMORULIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

ACTINS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CADHERINS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOSINS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 42549153295     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: 15300285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.3801051     Document Type: Article

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