Prognostic implications of monosomy 3 in uveal melanoma

Lancet

Volumn 347, Issue 9010, 1996, Pages 1222-1225

  Prescher, Gabriele ^b   Bornfeld, Norbert ^a   Hirche, Herbert ^b   Horsthemke, Bernhard ^b   Jöckel, Karl Heinz ^b   Becher, Reinhard ^b  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHROMOSOME 3; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; ENUCLEATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KARYOTYPING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOSOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; UVEA MELANOMA;

EID: 0029874486     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(96)90736-9     Document Type: Article

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