Molecular diagnosis of ewing sarcoma family of tumors: A comparative analysis of 560 cases with fish and rt-pcr

Diagnostic Molecular Pathology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 189-199

  MacHado, Isidro ^a   Noguera, Rosa ^a   Pellin, Antonio ^a   Lopez Guerrero, Jose A ^b   Piqueras, Marta ^a   Navarro, Samuel ^a   Llombart Bosch, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO VALENCIANO DE ONCOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

ESFT; FISH; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; PARAFFIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EWING SARCOMA; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMALL CELL SARCOMA; TISSUE MICROARRAY;

BONE NEOPLASMS; DNA, NEOPLASM; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, NEOPLASM; SARCOMA, EWING'S; TISSUE ARRAY ANALYSIS; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 73349131509     PISSN: 10529551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PDM.0b013e3181a06f66     Document Type: Article

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