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Hereditary and sporadic papillary renal carcinomas with c-met mutations share a distinct morphological phenotype.
The American journal of pathology - 1 Aug 1999
Lubensky I A, Schmidt L, Zhuang Z, Weirich G, Pack S, Zambrano N, Walther M M, Choyke P, Linehan W M, Zbar B
Abstract excerpt
Germline mutations of c-met oncogene at 7q31 have been detected in patients with hereditary papillary renal cell carcinoma. In addition, c-met mutations were shown to play a role in 13% of patients with papillary renal cell carcinoma and no family history of renal tumors. The histopathology of papillary renal cell carcinoma with c-met mutations has not been previously described. We analyzed the histopathology of...
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