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Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma: A Clinicopathologic Study Including Microsatellite Instability Analysis
1 Aug 2002
Abstract excerpt
Urothelial carcinoma of the renal pelvis and ureter may develop as a manifestation of the hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer syndrome that is characterized by mutations in a number of DNA mismatch repair genes and detectable as microsatellite instability. In this study, we examined microsatellite instability and the clinicopathologic features of urothelial carcinoma of the renal pelvis (n = 61) and ureter...
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