Article
Immunohistochemistry is highly sensitive and specific for detecting the BRAF V600E mutation in papillary thyroid carcinoma.
International journal of clinical and experimental pathology - 1 Jan 2015
Sun Jian, Zhang Jing, Lu Junliang, Gao Jie, Lu Tao, Ren Xinyu, Duan Huanli, Liang Zhiyong
Abstract excerpt
The V600E mutation in the B-type Raf kinase (BRAF) gene is a common genetic change in cases of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) that appears to play a key role in the development and progression of this disease. We sought to assess the sensitivity and specificity of immunohistochemical detection of this mutation with a V600E mutated BRAF antibody in a Chinese PTC cohort. In this study, we used fully automated...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Biomarkers, Tumor
- Carcinoma
- Carcinoma, Papillary
- Child
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- Female
- Humans
- Immunohistochemistry
