Estrogen and progesterone receptors expression in gastrointestinal stromal tumors and intramural gastrointestinal leiomyomas

International Journal of Gastrointestinal Cancer

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 129-132

  Brodsky, Sergey V ^a   Gimenez, Cecilia ^a   Ghosh, Chandrani ^a   Melamed, Myron ^a   Ramaswamy, Gita ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Estrogen receptor; Gastrointestinal stromal tumor; Leiomyoma; Progesterone receptor

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE MUSCLE; LEIOMYOMA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMORS; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; LEIOMYOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 43149124418     PISSN: 15373649     EISSN: 15590739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12029-007-9003-x     Document Type: Article

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