Analysis of DNA and morphometry in breast carcinoma

Histochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 241-245

  Aubele, Michaela ^a   Auer, Gert ^b   Höfler, Heinz ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORPHOMETRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL NUCLEUS; COHORT STUDIES; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0029744131     PISSN: 09486143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004180050038     Document Type: Article

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