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Renal cell carcinoma of end-stage renal disease: an analysis of chromosome 3, 7, and 17 abnormalities by microsatellite amplification.
Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc - 1 Mar 1999
Hughson M D, Bigler S, Dickman K, Kovacs G
Abstract excerpt
End-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients have an increased risk of carcinoma of the kidney, thought to result from development of a disproportionately high number of papillary renal cell carcinomas. This study was undertaken to discover whether these renal carcinomas have a deletion of the short arm of chromosome 3, which characterizes conventional (clear cell) carcinomas, or trisomies of chromosomes 7 and 17,...
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