Nuclear protein in testis midline carcinomas: A lethal and underrecognized entity

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 135, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1494-1498

  Davis, Brian N ^a   Karabakhtsian, Rouzan G ^a   Pettigrew, Anjana L ^a   Arnold, Susanne M ^a   French, Chris A ^b   Brill, Yolanda Musgrave ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR PROTEIN; NUT PROTEIN, HUMAN; ONCOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CARCINOMA; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; NOSE TUMOR; PATHOLOGY;

CARCINOMA; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMANS; NOSE NEOPLASMS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; ONCOGENE PROTEINS; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 82555194509     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5858/arpa.2010-0389-CR     Document Type: Article

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