Article
Identical genetic changes in different histologic components of Wilms' tumors.
Journal of the National Cancer Institute - 6 Aug 1997
Zhuang Z, Merino M J, Vortmeyer A O, Bryant B, Lash A E, Wang C, Deavers M T, Shelton W F, Kapur S, Chandra R S
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: In young children and infants, Wilms' tumor is the most common cancer of the kidney. Wilms' tumor exhibits heterogeneous histopathologic features, consisting of rapidly proliferating blastemal and epithelial cells and a stromal component that has heterologous elements (e.g., cartilage...
Topics
- Alleles
- Chromosome Deletion
- DNA Probes
- Gene Deletion
- Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
- Genes, Wilms Tumor
- Heterozygote
- Humans
- Kidney Neoplasms
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Transcription, Genetic
- Wilms Tumor
