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Genomes and GenesSpecies | Markku MiettinenSummaryAffiliation: National Institutes of Health Country: USA Publications
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumorsMarkku Miettinen
Laboratory of Pathology, NCI NIH, 9000 Rockville Pike, Building 10, Room 2B50, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA Electronic address
Gastroenterol Clin North Am 42:399-415. 2013..These are related to deficiencies in the succinate dehydrogenase complex, NF1-gene alterations in connection with neurofibromatosis type 1 tumor syndrome, and mutational activation of the BRAF oncogene in very rare cases...
Claudin-5 as an immunohistochemical marker for angiosarcoma and hemangioendotheliomasMarkku Miettinen
National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Am J Surg Pathol 35:1848-56. 2011....
A simple method for generating multitissue blocks without special equipmentMarkku Miettinen
Laboratory of Pathology, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Appl Immunohistochem Mol Morphol 20:410-2. 2012..This technique is especially suitable when abundant tissue is available, for example, generating blocks containing libraries of normal tissues or defined tumors for antibody screening or tumor immunophenotyping...
Vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2 as a marker for malignant vascular tumors and mesothelioma: an immunohistochemical study of 262 vascular endothelial and 1640 nonvascular tumorsMarkku Miettinen
Laboratory of Pathology, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Am J Surg Pathol 36:629-39. 2012..Information on VEGFR2 tissue expression may be useful in development of targeted oncologic therapy through VEGFR2-specific tyrosine kinase inhibitors...
Prox1 transcription factor as a marker for vascular tumors-evaluation of 314 vascular endothelial and 1086 nonvascular tumorsMarkku Miettinen
Laboratory of Pathology, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda 20892, MD, USA
Am J Surg Pathol 36:351-9. 2012..Its patterns of expression in hemangiomas and angiosarcoma may be diagnostically useful and offer a new parameter in the biological classification of vascular tumors...
Histopathology of gastrointestinal stromal tumorMarkku Miettinen
National Cancer Institute, Laboratory of Pathology, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
J Surg Oncol 104:865-73. 2011..GISTs in NF1 patients and children are distinctive clinicopathologic groups. Immunohistochemical testing for KIT and sometimes for DOG1/Ano 1 is essential in confirming the diagnosis...
Succinate dehydrogenase-deficient GISTs: a clinicopathologic, immunohistochemical, and molecular genetic study of 66 gastric GISTs with predilection to young ageMarkku Miettinen
Laboratory of Pathology, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, 20892, USA
Am J Surg Pathol 35:1712-21. 2011....
Immunohistochemical Loss of Succinate Dehydrogenase Subunit A (SDHA) in Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors (GISTs) Signals SDHA Germline MutationMarkku Miettinen
Laboratory of Pathology Pediatric Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute Genetics Branch of the National Institutes of Health National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD
Am J Surg Pathol 37:234-40. 2013..SDHA-negative GISTs comprise approximately 30% of SDHB-negative/SDH-deficient GISTs, and SDHA loss generally correlates with SDHA mutations...
Expression of the receptor for type i insulin-like growth factor (IGF1R) in gastrointestinal stromal tumors: an immunohistochemical study of 1078 cases with diagnostic and therapeutic implicationsJerzy Lasota
Laboratory of Pathology, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Am J Surg Pathol 37:114-9. 2013..Because inhibition of IGF1R signaling might become a therapeutic target in GISTs, screening for IGF1R expression may become important in the near future...
KBA62 and PNL2: 2 new melanoma markers-immunohistochemical analysis of 1563 tumors including metastatic, desmoplastic, and mucosal melanomas and their mimicsPhyu Phyu Aung
Laboratory of Pathology, National Institutes of Health, NCI, 10 Center Drive, Room 2B50, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Am J Surg Pathol 36:265-72. 2012..PNL2 is highly specific for melanomas but lacks reactivity with desmoplastic melanomas. It is also an excellent supplementary marker for perivascular epitheloid cell tumor at various sites...
[Gastrointestinal stromal tumor]Markku Miettinen
Laboratory of Pathology National Cancer Institute NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Duodecim 128:1441-50. 2012..Loss of succinate dehydrogenase complex is a newly understood pathogenesis for 5% of GIST, associated with early onset of disease...
Immunoreactivity for calretinin and keratins in desmoid fibromatosis and other myofibroblastic tumors: a diagnostic pitfallStephanie Barak
Laboratory of Pathology, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Am J Surg Pathol 36:1404-9. 2012....
