Automated screening for micrometastases in bone marrow smears

Journal of Immunological Methods

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 1988, Pages 105-111

  Mansi, J L ^a,b   Mesker, W E ^c   McDonnell, T ^a   Van Driel Kulker, A M J ^c   Ploem, J S ^c   Coombes, R C ^a,b  

^a LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Automation; Bone marrow; Breast cancer; Immunocytochemistry; Micrometastasis

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BONE MARROW; BREAST CANCER; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MICROMETASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR CELL;

BONE MARROW; BONE MARROW EXAMINATION; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CENTRIFUGATION; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0023748064     PISSN: 00221759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0022-1759(88)90040-3     Document Type: Article

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