Molecular analysis of thyroid tumors

Modern Pathology

Volumn 24, Issue , 2011, Pages S34-S43

  Nikiforov, Yuri E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

BRAF; Cancer; RAS; RET PTC; Thyroid

Indexed keywords

B RAF KINASE; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA; PROTEIN RET; RAS PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX8; TUMOR MARKER;

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURGERY; CYTOLOGY; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID CANCER; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA;

GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; MUTATION; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; ONCOGENE PROTEIN P21(RAS); PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PPAR GAMMA; PROGNOSIS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS B-RAF; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RET; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 79953325102     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: 15300285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.2010.167     Document Type: Article

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