Two novel H-RAS mutations identified in a child with an atypical spitzoid tumor

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 147, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 514-515

  Simi, Lisa ^a   Pinzani, Pamela ^a   Salvianti, Francesca ^a   Lorenzoni, Alessandro ^a   Tomasini, Carlo ^b   Broganelli, Paolo ^b   Orlando, Claudio ^a   Pazzagli, Mario ^a   Massi, Daniela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

H RAS PROTEIN; RAS PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ATYPICAL SPITZOID TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHILD; DERMIS; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENE MUTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LETTER; MELANOCYTE; MITOSIS RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN TUMOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHILD; EXONS; FEMALE; GENES, RAS; HUMANS; MELANOMA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEVUS, EPITHELIOID AND SPINDLE CELL; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 79953895460     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: 15383652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archdermatol.2011.76     Document Type: Letter

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