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Molecular markers for malignancy in adrenocortical tumors.
Hormone research - 1 Jan 1997
Gicquel C, Le Bouc Y
Abstract excerpt
Little is known about the pathophysiology of sporadic adrenocortical tumors. Benign and malignant adrenocortical tumors are often difficult to distinguish by conventional histology. We tested 38 adrenocortical tumors (23 benign and 15 malignant) for loss of heterozygosity (LOH) at 17p13 and abnormalities in the 11p15 region (uniparental disomy, UPD, and overexpression of the IGF II gene). We showed that 17p13...
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