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Somatostatin receptor 2a is a more sensitive diagnostic marker of meningioma than epithelial membrane antigen

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The authors would like to thank Ms. Kim Thompson, who performed the immunohistochemistry studies at PhenoPath, and Dr. Abul Abbas, Chair of the Department of Pathology at University of California San Francisco, who funded this work.

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  1. Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Joshua R. Menke, Arie Perry & Tarik Tihan

  2. Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

    David R. Raleigh

  3. Department of Bioinformatics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Sean Thomas

  4. PhenoPath Laboratories, Seattle, WA, USA

    Allen M. Gown

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Menke, J.R., Raleigh, D.R., Gown, A.M. et al. Somatostatin receptor 2a is a more sensitive diagnostic marker of meningioma than epithelial membrane antigen. Acta Neuropathol 130, 441–443 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00401-015-1459-3

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