Epithelial-mesenchymal transition-like events in vulvar cancer and its relation with HPV

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 184-194

  Rodrigues, I S ^a   Lavorato Rocha, A M ^a   De M Maia, B ^a   Stiepcich, M M A ^b   De Carvalho, F M ^a   Baiocchi, G ^a   Soares, F A ^a   Rocha, R M ^a  

^a A C CAMARGO CANCER CENTER   (Brazil)

^b Fleury   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SLUG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNAIL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TWIST; UVOMORULIN; VIMENTIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TUMOR VIRUS; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPH VESSEL METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PERINEURAL INVASION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; VULVA CARCINOMA; WART VIRUS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALPHAPAPILLOMAVIRUS; BETA CATENIN; CADHERINS; EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; PROGNOSIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; TWIST TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VIMENTIN; VULVAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84880262257     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.2013.273     Document Type: Article

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