Article
An immunohistochemical study of p53 protein in gallbladder and extrahepatic bile duct/ampullary carcinomas.
Cancer - 1 Sept 1994
Teh M, Wee A, Raju G C
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: p53 mutations are known to occur frequently in human cancers, including gallbladder carcinoma. However, there has been no study of p53 expression in extrahepatic bile duct/ampullary carcinoma. Furthermore, gallbladder carcinoma is associated with cholelithiasis, whereas no such associ...
Topics
- Adenocarcinoma
- Adenocarcinoma, Papillary
- Ampulla of Vater
- Bile Duct Neoplasms
- Bile Ducts, Extrahepatic
- Carcinoma
- Carcinoma, Adenosquamous
- Common Bile Duct Neoplasms
- Epithelium
- Gallbladder Neoplasms
- Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
- Humans
- Immunoenzyme Techniques
- Immunohistochemistry
- Mutation
- Staining and Labeling
- Tumor Suppressor Protein p53