Exhaled breath condensate is not suitable to detect EGFR somatic mutations

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1126-1127

  Paradiso, A ^a   Tommasi, S ^a   Pinto, R ^a   Carpagnano, G E ^b   Foschino Barbaro, M P ^b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE GIOVANNI PAOLO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR;

AGED; BREATH ANALYSIS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RISK; CHROMOSOME 3P; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; EXHALATION; EXON; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE DELETION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RISK; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRON; LETTER; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC MUTATION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

BASE SEQUENCE; BREATH TESTS; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; EXHALATION; EXONS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; RISK;

EID: 58849103069     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00083008     Document Type: Letter

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