MASH1: A useful marker in differentiating pulmonary small cell carcinoma from Merkel cell carcinoma

Modern Pathology

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1357-1362

  Ralston, Jonathan ^a   Chiriboga, Luis ^a   Nonaka, Daisuke ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

MASH1; Merkel cell carcinoma; Small cell carcinoma of the lung; TTF 1

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; THYROID TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MASH1;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CARCINOMA, MERKEL CELL; CELL NUCLEUS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SMALL CELL LUNG CARCINOMA; TISSUE ARRAY ANALYSIS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 57749093574     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: 15300285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.2008.118     Document Type: Article

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