CDX-2 expression in primary lung adenocarcinoma

Applied Immunohistochemistry and Molecular Morphology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 16-19

  Cowan, Morgan L ^a   Li, Qing K ^a   Illei, Peter B ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

adenocarcinoma; CDX 2; CK7; lung; napsin A; TTF 1

Indexed keywords

CYTOKERATIN 20; CYTOKERATIN 7; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; K RAS PROTEIN; NAPSIN A; PROTEIN; PROTEIN P40; PROTEIN P63; THYROID TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CDX2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANAPLASTIC LYMPHOMA KINASE; ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; CDX2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE-ACTIVATING KINASE; EGFR PROTEIN, HUMAN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; KRAS PROTEIN, HUMAN; NAPSA PROTEIN, HUMAN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTEIN P21; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; THYROID NUCLEAR FACTOR 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TUMOR MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TISSUE MICROARRAY; ADENOCARCINOMA; CANCER GRADING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PATHOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VERY ELDERLY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASPARTIC ACID ENDOPEPTIDASES; BIOMARKERS, TUMOR; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIATION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATIN-20; KERATIN-7; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; NEOPLASM GRADING; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS P21(RAS); RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84952717467     PISSN: 15412016     EISSN: 15334058     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAI.0000000000000250     Document Type: Article

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