Histologic characteristics of breast cancers with occult lymph node metastases detected by keratin 19 mRNA reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction

Cancer

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1235-1240

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

^a OSAKA MEDICAL CENTER FOR CANCER AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

breast cancers; lymph node; occult metastases; reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; KERATIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INVASION; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OCCULT CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ACTINS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD VESSELS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMANS; KERATINS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY, MODIFIED RADICAL; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0029811977     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19960915)78:6<1235::AID-CNCR10>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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