Morphologic and clinicopathologic features of lung squamous cell carcinomas expressing Sox2

American Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 138, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 712-718

  Brcic, Luka ^a,b   Sherer, Carol K ^a   Shuai, Yongli ^c   Hornick, Jason L ^d   Chirieac, Lucian R ^d   Dacic, Sanja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Lung squamous cell carcinoma; Morphology; Prognosis; Protein expression; Sox2 amplification

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER MORPHOLOGY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL JUNCTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATINIZATION; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DOSAGE; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; SOXB1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84868152766     PISSN: 00029173     EISSN: 19437722     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1309/AJCP05TTWQTWNLTN     Document Type: Article

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