Human mammaglobin transcript amplification for differential diagnosis in a breast cancer metastatic to dura mater

Anticancer Research

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1061-1064

  Dono, Mariella ^a   Ferro, Paola ^b   Franceschini, Maria Cristiana ^b   Dessanti, Paolo ^b   Bacigalupo, Bartolomeo ^b   Cibei, Eugenio ^b   Capellini, Cesare ^b   Amoroso, Domenico ^c   Camerini, Andrea ^c   Fedeli, Franco ^b   Roncella, Silvio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c Versilia Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain metastases; Breast cancer; Human mammaglobin; PCR

Indexed keywords

MAMMAGLOBIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CELL; CARCINOMATOUS MENINGITIS; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAMMOGRAPHY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DURA MATER; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAMMAGLOBIN A; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; UTEROGLOBIN;

EID: 79956138613     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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