The detection of breast carcinoma micrometastases in axillary lymph nodes by means of reverse transcriptase‐polymerase chain reaction

Cancer

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 1994, Pages 1595-1600

  Noguchi, Shinzaburo ^a   Aihara, Tomohiko ^a   Nakamori, Shoji ^a   Motomura, Kazuyoshi ^a   Inaji, Hideo ^a   Imaoka, Shingi ^a   Koyama, Hiroki ^a  

^a CENTER FOR ADULT DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

breast carcinoma; metastasis; MUCl; reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST METASTASIS; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AXILLA; BASE SEQUENCE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CA-15-3 ANTIGEN; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CHOLELITHIASIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUCINS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PHYLLODES TUMOR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0027978825     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(19940901)74:5<1595::AID-CNCR2820740516>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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