The homeobox intestinal differentiation factor CDX2 is selectively expressed in gastrointestinal adenocarcinomas

Modern Pathology

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1392-1399

  Kaimaktchiev, Vassil ^a   Terracciano, Luigi ^b   Tornillo, Luigi ^b   Spichtin, Hanspeter ^c   Stoios, Dimitra ^b   Bundi, Marcel ^b   Korcheva, Veselina ^a   Mirlacher, Martina ^b   Loda, Massimo ^d   Sauter, Guido ^b   Corless, Christopher L ^a,e  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c Institute of Clinical Pathology   (Switzerland)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CDX2; Differentiation; Immunohistochemistry; Intestinal; Marker

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CDX2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GRADING; CANCER STAGING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COLON ADENOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DNA MICROARRAY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; GALLBLADDER CANCER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOMEOBOX; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE CELL; KIDNEY CANCER; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; METASTASIS; OVARY CARCINOMA; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAINING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; THYROID CANCER; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 8144224902     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.3800205     Document Type: Article

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