Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 21-2011. A 31-year-old man with ALK-positive adenocarcinoma of the lung

N Engl J Med. 2011 Jul 14;365(2):158-67. doi: 10.1056/NEJMcpc1102202.

Authors

Alice T Shaw¹, David G Forcione, Subba R Digumarthy, A John Iafrate

Affiliation

¹ Center for Thoracic Cancers, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.

PMID: 21751909
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc1102202

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports
Clinical Conference

MeSH terms

Adenocarcinoma / genetics*
Adenocarcinoma / pathology
Adenocarcinoma / secondary
Adult
Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase
Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung / genetics*
Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung / pathology
Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung / secondary
Deglutition Disorders / etiology
Diagnosis, Differential
Gene Rearrangement*
Genes, erbB-1
Humans
Lung Neoplasms / genetics*
Lung Neoplasms / pathology
Male
Mutation
Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases / genetics*

Substances

ALK protein, human
Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase
Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases