EML4-ALK Fusion Lung Cancer: A Rare Acquired Event

Neoplasia - Tập 10 Số 3 - Trang 298-302 - 2008
Sven Perner1,2, Patrick Wagner1, Francesca Demichelis1,3, Rohit Mehra4, Christopher J. Lafargue1, Benjamin J. Moss1, Stefanie Arbogast5, Alex Soltermann5, Walter Weder6, Thomas J. Giordano7, David G. Beer8, David S. Rickman1, Arul M. Chinnaiyan9, Holger Moch5, Mark A. Rubin1
1Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
2Department of Pathology, University Hospitals of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
3Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
4Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, Department of Pathology, Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
5Institute of Surgical Pathology, Department of Pathology, University Hospital of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
6Division of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
7Department of Pathology, Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
8Section of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
9Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, Department of Pathology, Urology, Bioinformatics, and Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

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