Clinical, histopathologic, and genomic features of spitz tumors with ALK fusions

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 581-591

  Yeh, Iwei ^a   De La Fouchardiere, Arnaud ^c   Pissaloux, Daniel ^c   Mully, Thaddeus W ^a   Garrido, Maria C ^a   Vemula, Swapna S ^a   Busam, Klaus J ^b   Leboit, Philip E ^a   McCalmont, Timothy H ^a   Bastian, Boris C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c Digest Comity Ctr Leon Berard   (Spain)

Author keywords

ALK fusion; fusion kinase; melanoma; Spitz tumor

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASTIC LYMPHOMA KINASE; ONCOPROTEIN; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEVUS; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SKIN TUMOR; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; FEMALE; GENOMICS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEVUS, EPITHELIOID AND SPINDLE CELL; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, FUSION; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84928581154     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: 15320979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAS.0000000000000387     Document Type: Article

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