Heterogeneous genetic profiles in soft tissue myoepitheliomas

Modern Pathology

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1311-1319

  Hallor, Karolin H ^a   Teixeira, Manuel R ^b   Fletcher, Christopher D M ^c   Bizarro, Susana ^b   Staaf, Johan ^a   Domanski, Henryk A ^a   Von Steyern, Fredrik Vult ^a   Panagopoulos, Ioannis ^a   Mandahl, Nils ^a   Mertens, Fredrik ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b PORTUGUESE ONCOLOGY INSTITUTE   (Portugal)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

EWSR1; HMGA2; Mixed tumor; Myoepithelioma; Parachordoma; PLAG1

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR 2A; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GENOMIC DNA; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP A2 PROTEIN; PROTEIN EWSR1; PROTEIN PLAG1; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHROMOSOME 19P; CHROMOSOME BAND; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MYOEPITHELIOMA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLEOMORPHIC ADENOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SALIVARY GLAND TUMOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SOFT TISSUE TUMOR;

ADENOMA, PLEOMORPHIC; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALMODULIN-BINDING PROTEINS; CHILD; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR P16; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HMGA2 PROTEIN; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOEPITHELIOMA; PAROTID NEOPLASMS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 57749108339     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: 15300285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.2008.124     Document Type: Article

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