Molecular test for the detection of tumor cells in blood and sentinel nodes of melanoma patients

American Journal of Pathology

Volumn 149, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 759-764

  Van Der Velde Zimmermann, Detlef ^a   Roijers, Janine F M ^a   Bouwens Rombouts, Anne ^a   De Weger, Roel A ^a   De Graaf, Peter W ^a   Tilanus, Marcel G J ^a   Van Den Tweel, Jan G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE;

ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUMOR CELL;

BASE SEQUENCE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MELANOMA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; NEOPLASM CIRCULATING CELLS; NEOPLASM STAGING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, NEOPLASM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0029774738     PISSN: 00029440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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