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Expression of variant CD44 containing variant exon v8-10 in gallbladder cancer.
Oncology reports - 1 Jan 2000
Yamaguchi A, Zhang M, Goi T, Fujita T, Niimoto S, Katayama K, Hirose K
Abstract excerpt
We studied the Cd44v8-10 expression in gallbladder cancer immunohistochemically. Eighteen of 37 gallbladder cancer tissues expressed CD44v8-10. There were significant correlations between CD44v8-10 immunoreactivity and perineural invasion, venous invasion, and lymph node metastasis. Patients with CD44v8-10-positive tumors showed poor prognoses, whereas those with CD44v8-10-negative tumors had favorable prognoses....
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