Associations between mutations and histologic patterns of mucin in lung adenocarcinoma: Invasive mucinous pattern and extracellular mucin are associated with KRAS mutation

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1118-1127

  Kadota, Kyuichi ^a,c,d   Yeh, Yi Chen ^a   D'Angelo, Sandra P ^b   Moreira, Andre L ^c   Kuk, Deborah ^c   Sima, Camelia S ^c   Riely, Gregory J ^b   Arcila, Maria E ^c   Kris, Mark G ^b   Rusch, Valerie W ^a   Adusumilli, Prasad S ^a,c   Travis, William D ^c  

^a Department of Surgery Division of Thoracic Service   (United States)

^b Thoracic Oncology Service   (United States)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

adenocarcinoma; Lung; mucin; mutation; subtype

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; MUCIN; RAS PROTEIN;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLLOID CARCINOMA; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOLOGY; TISSUE MICROARRAY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOCARCINOMA, MUCINOUS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUCINS; MUTATION; RAS PROTEINS; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; TISSUE ARRAY ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904513918     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: 15320979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAS.0000000000000246     Document Type: Article

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