Open AccessEvaluation of clinical relevance of examining K-ras, p16 and p53 mutations along with allelic losses at 9p and 18q in EUS-guided fine needle aspiration samples of patients with chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer
Author(s) -
Cyril Šálek,
Lucie Benešová,
Miroslav Zavoral,
Vladimír Nosek,
L Kasperova,
Miroslav Ryska,
R Strnad,
Eva Traboulsi,
Marek Minárik
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
world journal of gastroenterology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.427
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 2219-2840
pISSN - 1007-9327
DOI - 10.3748/wjg.v13.i27.3714
Subject(s) - loss of heterozygosity , fine needle aspiration , cdkn2a , biology , pancreatic cancer , endoscopic ultrasound , pancreatitis , cytology , allele , pathology , gastroenterology , medicine , microbiology and biotechnology , biopsy , cancer , gene , genetics , radiology
To establish an optimum combination of molecular markers resulting in best overall diagnostic sensitivity and specificity for evaluation of suspicious pancreatic mass.