The detection of disseminated tumor cells in bone marrow from colorectal-cancer patients by a cytokeratin-20-specific nested reverse-transcriptase-polymerase-chain reaction is related to the stage of disease

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 278-282

  Soeth, Edlyn ^a   Röder, Christian ^a   Juhl, Hartmut ^a   Krüger, Uwe ^a   Kremer, Bernd ^a   Kalthoff, Holger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKERATIN;

ARTICLE; BONE MARROW METASTASIS; CANCER STAGING; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BASE SEQUENCE; BONE MARROW; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; KERATIN-20; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0029838788     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19960822)69:4<278::AID-IJC7>3.0.CO;2-U     Document Type: Article

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