Cowden syndrome: Report of two cases with immunohistochemical analysis for pten expression

American Journal of Dermatopathology

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 632-634

  Zabetian, Saba ^a   Mehregan, Darius ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cowden syndrome; immunohistochemical staining; PTEN expression; trichilemmoma

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN KINASE B;

ADULT; ANTIGEN RETRIEVAL; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CELL GROWTH; CELL SURVIVAL; CHROMOSOME 10Q; COLON RESECTION; COWDEN SYNDROME; CYTOPLASM; EOSINOPHIL; FACE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE POLYP; KIDNEY TUMOR; MALE; MASTECTOMY; NEPHRECTOMY; NOSE; PAPULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCH BIOPSY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THYROID ADENOMA; THYROIDECTOMY; TRICHILEMMOMA; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 10; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HAMARTOMA SYNDROME, MULTIPLE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PTEN PHOSPHOHYDROLASE; SKIN;

EID: 84864361492     PISSN: 01931091     EISSN: 15330311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/DAD.0b013e31824a22f9     Document Type: Article

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