Molecular and clinicopathologic comparisons of head and neck squamous carcinoma variants: Common and distinctive features of biological significance

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1299-1310

  Choi, Hong Ran ^a,b   Roberts, Dianna B ^a   Johnigan, Richard H ^a   Sturgis, Erich M ^a   Rosenthal, David I ^a   Weber, Randal S ^a   Luna, Mario A ^a   Batsakis, John G ^a   El Naggar, Adel K ^a  

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

^b Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Head and neck tumorigenesis; Loss of heterozygosity; Molecular genetics; Squamous carcinoma; Variants

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOGENESIS; CHROMOSOME 11Q; CHROMOSOME 17P; CHROMOSOME 18Q; CHROMOSOME 3P; CHROMOSOME 4P; CHROMOSOME 8P; CHROMOSOME 9P; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SARCOMA; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LOSS OF HETEROZYGOSITY; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MIDDLE AGED; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 5044220681     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.pas.0000138003.46650.dc     Document Type: Article

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