Wnt pathway, angiogenetic and hormonal markers in sporadic and familial adenomatous polyposis-associated Juvenile Nasopharyngeal Angiofibromas (JNA)

Applied Immunohistochemistry and Molecular Morphology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 173-178

  Ponti, Giovanni ^a,e   Losi, Lorena ^b   Pellacani, Giovanni ^a   Rossi, Giovanni Battista ^c   Presutti, Livio ^a   Mattioli, Francesco ^a   Villari, Domenico ^a   Wannesson, Luciano ^e   Ciufelli, Matteo Alicandri ^c   Izzo, Paola ^d   De Rosa, Marina ^d   Marone, Pietro ^c   Seidenari, Stefania ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b Department of Pathology ^*  (Italy)

^c Istituto Nazionale Tumori   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^e ONCOLOGY INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

APC; B catenin; E cadherin; Familial adenomatous polyposis; Juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibromas; VEGFR

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; APC PROTEIN; BETA CATENIN; HORMONE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PARAFFIN; UVOMORULIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2; WNT PROTEIN; CADHERIN; TUMOR MARKER; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR;

ADENOMATOUS POLYP; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER THERAPY; CASE REPORT; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CHILD; CLINICAL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERM LINE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; JUVENILE NASOPHARYNGEAL ANGIOFIBROMA; MALE; NASOPHARYNX FIBROMA; NASOPHARYNX TUMOR; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SAMPLE; SCREENING; SOMATIC MUTATION; STAINING; TUMOR RECURRENCE; UNIVERSITY; COLON POLYPOSIS; GENETICS; HEMANGIOFIBROMA; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOLOGY;

ADENOMATOUS POLYPOSIS COLI; ADOLESCENT; ANGIOFIBROMA; BETA CATENIN; CADHERINS; CHILD; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RECEPTORS, VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 46749083936     PISSN: 15412016     EISSN: 15334058     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAI.0b013e31806bee12     Document Type: Article

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