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Case Reports
. 2016 Feb;18(2):298-300.
doi: 10.1093/neuonc/nov314.

Molecular portrait of a rare case of metastatic glioblastoma: somatic and germline mutations using whole-exome sequencing

Sara Franceschi  1 , Francesca Lessi  1 , Paolo Aretini  1 , Chiara M Mazzanti  1 , Michele Menicagli  1 , Marco La Ferla  1 , Veronica De Gregorio  1 , Davide Caramella  1 , Antonio G Naccarato  1 , Generoso Bevilacqua  1 , Angelo G Bonadio  1 , Francesco Pasqualetti  1
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Molecular portrait of a rare case of metastatic glioblastoma: somatic and germline mutations using whole-exome sequencing

Sara Franceschi et al. Neuro Oncol. 2016 Feb.
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Fig. 1.
(A) CT-guided biopsy of the sternal lesion (needle indicated by yellow arrow). (B) Glial fibrillary acidic protein-positive immunostaining in the cytological preparation of the sternal lesion. (C) DNA sequences showing the C8A-R30W mutation (C > T) that was present in both the glioblastoma (GBM) primary tumor and sternal metastasis DNA and absent in blood sample DNA.
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