Diagnostic utility of dual-color break-apart chromogenic in situ hybridization for the detection of rearranged SS18 in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded synovial sarcoma

Human Pathology

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1397-1404

  Motoi, Toru ^a   Kumagai, Arisa ^a   Tsuji, Kaori ^b   Imamura, Tetsuo ^b   Fukusato, Toshio ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TEIKYO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chromogenic in situ hybridization; Molecular diagnostics; SS18; Synovial sarcoma

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; PARAFFIN; FIXATIVE; ONCOPROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SS18 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TUMOR MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; SS18 GENE; SYNOVIAL SARCOMA; TUMOR CELL; ADOLESCENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SARCOMA, SYNOVIAL; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FIXATIVES; FORMALDEHYDE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SARCOMA, SYNOVIAL; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957132590     PISSN: 00468177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humpath.2010.02.009     Document Type: Article

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