Brachyury: A diagnostic marker for the differential diagnosis of chordoma and hemangioblastoma versus neoplastic histological mimickers

Disease Markers

Volumn 2014, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Barresi, Valeria ^a,b   Ieni, Antonio ^a   Branca, Giovanni ^a   Tuccari, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BRACHYURY; TUMOR MARKER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BRACHYURY PROTEIN; FETOPROTEIN; T BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CHORDOMA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE MARKER; HEMANGIOBLASTOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR MIMICRY;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; CHORDOMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FETAL PROTEINS; HEMANGIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84893776140     PISSN: 02780240     EISSN: 18758630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2014/514753     Document Type: Article

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